Legal Opinion
Chilton v. State
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided May 9, 1980No. 4148PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BURKE, Justice.
In this appeal we are called upon to review the trial court’s denial of Eric Chil-ton’s motion to suppress certain evidence on the grounds that such evidence was the product of an illegal search. We conclude that the trial court did err in refusing to suppress the challenged evidence.
On August 1, 1976, at approximately 12:55 a. m., officers Kalwara and Bartlett of the Juneau police department were engaged in a normal foot patrol of the downtown Juneau area. As they descended Bul-ger Way, a wooden stairway running down Mt. Roberts between Gastineau Avenue and South…
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