Hall v. State

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

In early 2004, Christopher Michael Hall and his girlfriend tried to pass five checks, totaling almost $8000, on bank accounts that Hall knew were either closed or frozen. For this conduct, Hall was charged with five counts of issuing a bad check, AS 11.46.280(a).

While Hall was awaiting trial on these charges, Hall wrote a new series of more than 100 bad checks-checks backed by insufficient funds, or drawn on closed accounts-totaling approximately $65,000. These checks involved eleven different accounts at eight financial institutions, and Hall defrauded more than two…