Legal Opinion
Nix v. State
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided January 16, 1981No. 4413, 4414PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1348OPINION
MATTHEWS, Justice.
On November 10, 1977, the Anchorage residence of Mr. and Mrs. Gary McDaniel was burglarized. Mrs. McDaniel told a coworker, Debbie Miller, what was taken.1 Ms. Miller told her that she had seen property fitting that description in the apartment of her brother, Ronald Long. This was reported to the police.
In order to gain sufficient information to obtain a search warrant, Officer Mark Headlough, dressed in plain clothes, went with Miller to her brother’s apartment. Miller knocked on the door and both she and Headlough entered at the invitation of Mike Lawyer, a friend…
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