Metigoruk v. Municipality of Anchorage

OPINION

SINGLETON, Judge.

Louis Metigoruk was convicted of shoplifting. AMC 8.05.550(A). He appeals arguing that a statement he made to a private security guard, employed by the store whose property he allegedly stole, should not have been admitted in evidence against him because the security guard did not give him Miranda warnings before questioning him. See Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). The municipality concedes that no Miranda warnings were given. The trial court held Miranda to be inapplicable to private security guards. Under the circumstances…