Pereira v. State

Full title: JOSEPH ADELINE PEREIRA, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Feb 13, 1985

462 So. 2d 1218 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

Opinion

No. 84-930.

February 13, 1985.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Broward County; Russell E. Seay, Jr., Judge.

Arnold T. Blostein of Arnold T. Blostein, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Sarah B. Mayer, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed.

LETTS and DELL, JJ., concur.

ANSTEAD, C.J., dissents with opinion.

ANSTEAD, Chief Judge, dissenting.

I would reverse on the authority of Munford v. State, 343 So.2d 67 (Fla. 2d DCA 1977) and English v. State, 301 So.2d 813 (Fla. 2d DCA 1974), because of the trial court's failure to grant the appellant's motion to compel identity of the confidential informant.