Pappas v. Municipality of Anchorage

OPINION

COATS, Judge.

Stavros J. Pappas pled no contest to driving while intoxicated and refusal to submit to a chemical test. AMC 09.28.020(A) and AMC 09.28.022(C). He claims on appeal that the district court erred in denying his Motion to Suppress and Dismiss on the grounds that he was denied a reasonable opportunity to contact counsel prior to deciding whether to take the breathalyzer. 1 We affirm.

In the early morning hours of July 5, 1984, Anchorage police officer Frank Weaver was dispatched to investigate a motor vehicle accident that had become a fist fight. Officer Weaver arrested Pappas…