Legal Opinion
Sprague v. State
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided February 2, 1979No. 3521PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Before BOOCHEVER, C. J., and RABI-NO WITZ, CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ. RABINOWITZ, Justice.
Michael Sprague and a companion, Karl Sinclair, were arrested on charges of burglary. A motion to suppress admissions made by Sprague to police officers approximately two weeks before he was arrested was denied, and Sprague subsequently pled nolo contendere. The trial court accepted the plea with the express condition that Sprague preserved his rights to appeal the suppression decision and the sentence.1 We affirm the judgment, finding no error in the trial court’s ruling that Sprague’s…
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