Legal Opinion
McKillop v. State
Court of Appeals of Alaska
Decided August 6, 1993No. A-4072PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MANNHEIMER, Judge.
A jury found Jon B. McKillop guilty of harassment, AS 11.61.120(a)(4), for making anonymous telephone calls to the Anchorage Abused Women’s Aid in Crisis (AWA-IC) shelter. McKillop appeals his conviction, asserting that his conviction rests on illegally seized evidence, that the trial judge misinstructed the jury on the meaning of “anonymous”, and that the harassment statute is unconstitutional. We hold that the statute is constitutional if construed to require proof that the defendant’s sole intent was to annoy or harass the recipient of the telephone call, but we…
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