Legal Opinion
State v. Felix
Court of Appeals of Alaska
Decided July 12, 2002No. Nos. A-7885, A-7886, A-7887PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MANNHEIMER, Judge.
In two of these three consolidated appeals, the district court granted prisoners' requests for a short-term release from prison so that they could attend to personal business. In the third appeal, the district court not only granted a prisoner two short releases from custody, but later ordered that the prisoner be released from custody so that she could spend the remainder of her sentence in a treatment facility.
*809In the first two cases (the appeals involving Pamela Fain and Sigmund T. Buchanan), the district court judges declared that they were modifying the prisoners'…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- State v. ChaneyAlaska Supreme Court · 1970
- Rust v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1978
- Thomas v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1977
- Whittlesey v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1980
- State v. TinsleyCourt of Appeals of Alaska · 1996
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