Legal Opinion

State v. Short

Court of Appeals of Alaska

Decided August 6, 2004No. A-8601Published

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

COATS, Chief Judge.

The presentence report in this case included the information that the defendant, as a juvenile, had been charged with burglary in the second degree and theft in the third degree. The report stated that these offenses had been informally adjusted with a letter. The superior court granted the defendant’s motion to strike this information from the presentence report on the ground that this information constituted a juvenile police contact that the Alaska Supreme Court, in Robinson v. State,1 stated “should not be made part of a presentenee report.” The State appeals. We…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Waters v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1971
  2. Nukapigak v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1977
  3. Nukapigak v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1978
  4. Robinson v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1971
  5. Mattern v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1972

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