Legal Opinion
Sovalik v. State
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided June 27, 1980No. 2109PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., and CON-NOR, BOOCHEVER, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ. MATTHEWS, Justice.
On August 29,1977, the North Slope Borough police in Barrow received a report that two human bodies had been discovered. Barrow police officers immediately traveled to the place of discovery, a stretch of beach on the Arctic Ocean some five miles from Barrow and almost a mile from the nearest human habitation. Upon arrival, the officers found the bodies of Gregory Jay Underwood and Donna Hendershot in sleeping bags in a small tent. An autopsy revealed that both victims had died several days…
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