Case v. Municipality of Anchorage

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Andrew B. Case was ticketed for speeding, and he demanded a trial on this charge. Case asserts that he received permission from the district court to attend the trial telephonically, since he was about to leave Alaska to study in Europe.

Case's trial was set for the afternoon of October 18, 2004. But Case failed to telephone the district court at the appointed time. After waiting for approximately forty minutes, Magistrate Jennifer K. Wells proceeded with the trial. The officer who gave Case the speeding citation testified that Case had indeed committed this offense.…