Legal Opinion
State v. Sundberg
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided May 9, 1980No. 4397PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.
This petition for review raises the propriety of the superior court’s adoption of an exclusionary rule as a sanction against the use of excessive force by the police in effectuating an arrest of a fleeing burglary suspect. We conclude such a rule should not have been applied and reverse.
The relevant facts are as follows. On the night of April 30, 1978, Anchorage Police Officer Jack Bohannon, driving a marked patrol car, responded to a police dispatch reporting a burglary in progress at a pharmacy in a medical office building. The information relayed by the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Rizzo v. GoodeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Weeks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Elkins v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
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3Cited by42 opinions
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- United States v. Michael Joseph Arra, Steven Scott Aschinger, and Overton Baker PettitCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1980
- Elson v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1983
- Copelin v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1983
- People v. DylaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1988
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