Clark v. Municipality of Anchorage

O P I N I 0 N

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Amy Catherine Clark pleaded no contest to the charge of driving while intoxicated. Her plea purports to be a Cooksey plea-that is, a plea that preserves her right to litigate a specified issue on appeal. 2 But under Cook-sey and the subsequent cases construing the Cooksey rule, the issue preserved for appeal must be "dispositive of the entire case". 3 If it is not, the plea is not valid and the defendant has no right to appeal. 4

In Clark's case, the preserved issue is not dispositive of the charge against her. We therefore dismiss this appeal and we remand…