State v. Campbell

OPINION

STEWART, Judge.

A University of Alaska police officer stopped a vehicle as it turned off Benson Boulevard into a store's parking lot because the vehicle did not have its headlights illuminated. The officer mistakenly believed that the vehicle was operating in violation of 18 AAC 04.010(a)(1), the regulation that requires a vehicle to have headlights illuminated one-half hour after sunset. In fact, sunset had occurred less than fifteen minutes beforehand.

The officer activated his patrol car's emer-geney lights. Instead of stopping, David Seott Campbell drove through the parking lot,…