Legal Opinion
Johnson v. State
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided September 19, 1980No. 3527PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1120OPINION
MATTHEWS, Justice.
This is an appeal from a conviction after a jury trial of distribution of cocaine in violation of AS 17.10.010.1 The conviction rests in part upon evidence2 which was seized pursuant to a search warrant from a residence in the nighttime.
In May of 1976, James McHaley approached Sergeant Windred of the Juneau Police Department and offered to help him “get the major . . . [drug] dealer in the Juneau area,” one Raymond Johnson. Win-dred had been investigating Raymond Johnson over a period of several years, spending many hours in accumulating evidence of his drug dealings.…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Steele v. United States No. 1Supreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Lo-Ji Sales, Inc. v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Shadwick v. City of TampaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Giles v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1922
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3Cited by54 opinions
- United States v. Garcia, Appeal of Jose A. Figueroa-Rivera, Gabriel Grant, Celina Wilson-GrantCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1989
- State v. JonesAlaska Supreme Court · 1985
- State v. CokerTennessee Supreme Court · 1987
- Dickerson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1982
- Commonwealth v. SoaresMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
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