Legal Opinion
McKinnon v. State
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided August 30, 1974No. 2227, 2228PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., and CONNOR, ERWIN and BOOCHEVER, JJ- BOOCHEVER, Justice.
McKinnon appeals from his conviction for sale of narcotics, AS 17.10.010. He specifies a multitude of errors on appeal, four of which bear discussion.
On the night of September 10, 1973, Richard Howe, an Anchorage police officer acting as an undercover narcotics detective arranged with McKinnon’s co-defendant, Kenneth Knight, to purchase an ounce of cocaine the following day. When Officer Howe met with Knight the next afternoon in front of Chilkoot Charlie’s Bar in Anchorage, McKinnon was also present.…
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