Coleman v. State
Court of Appeals of Alaska
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Judge ALLARD.
James Kevin Coleman 1 was convicted, following a jury trial, of second-degree burglary, second-degree theft, and fifth-degree criminal mischief based on allegations that he broke into a storage shed used by a commercial bike shop and stole two bicycles. 2 Coleman was also convicted of making a false report. 3
On appeal, Coleman challenges his conviction for burglary, arguing that the bicycle storage shed was too small to qualify as a “building” for purposes of the burglary statutes. Coleman further contends that there was insufficient evidence that he was the person who…
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