Legal Opinion

Hunter v. State

Alaska Supreme Court

Decided February 16, 1979No. 3557PublishedCited by 99 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice.

Harvey Lee Hunter pleaded nolo conten-dere to two counts of larceny in a building, AS 11.20.1501 and was sentenced to two consecutive three and one-half year terms. His appeal challenges the admissibility of statements made to a polygraph examiner who had not read him Miranda warnings2

*890prior to the examination and alleges his sentence was improper. We affirm the conviction but remand for resentencing.

Early in November 1976, Investigator Thomas Shanks of the Anchorage Police Department began to suspect that Harvey Lee Hunter had been involved in an October 20,…

2Cases cited67 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Schneckloth v. BustamonteSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  3. Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  4. Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  5. Oregon v. MathiasonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977

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3Cited by99 opinions

  1. Thompson v. KeohaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
  2. Frink v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1979
  3. Stone v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  4. State v. RuckerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2003
  5. Coleman v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1980

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