The Alaska Supreme Court has consistently interpreted its state constitution to provide a greater right to privacy than the United States Supreme Court. In United States v. Whren, the United States Supreme Court upheld the practice of pretextual traffic stops, thereby permitting police officers to use traffic violations as a pretext to investigate crime in the absence of probable cause. However, the Alaska Supreme Courts has issued no clear ruling as to whether state case law finding pretextual stops unconstitutional remains controlling. As a result of Alaska\u27s failure to directly address this issue, the state\u27s lower courts are divided as to whether to apply Whren\u27s objective standard or current state case law\u27s subjective stan...
The September 1978 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum leads with an article proposing alternatives to...
In New York v. United States, the Supreme Court set forth the rule that any federal law which direct...
In State v. Young, the Washington Supreme Court determined that the warrantless use of an infrared t...
In this Comment, the Author examines two recent Alaska Supreme Court decisions regarding privacy rig...
The right to privacy explicitly provided by the Alaska Constitution has long been broadly interprete...
Despite numerous attempts to subject the use of pretext law enforcement stops to Alaska Constitution...
As the United States Supreme Court expanded the scope and intensity limits of the stop and frisk doc...
In the eighteen years since Alaska achieved statehood, fifty-two cases involving issues of search an...
The authority of the police to enforce the statutory restrictions governing vehicle and traffic laws...
The issue this Note addresses is whether a police officer, during a routine traffic stop, violates a...
This note first discusses the Minnesota Supreme Court’s use of the Minnesota Constitution to provide...
In Part I, this Article briefly discusses the Whren decision. Part II discusses the three states tha...
The Minnesota Supreme Court recently addressed whether a Minnesota statute authorizing law enforceme...
This Article examines Alaska’s Recording Act. It details how Alaska is a Race-Notice state and the i...
In Whren v. United States, the United States Supreme Court held that a traffic stop is reasonable un...
The September 1978 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum leads with an article proposing alternatives to...
In New York v. United States, the Supreme Court set forth the rule that any federal law which direct...
In State v. Young, the Washington Supreme Court determined that the warrantless use of an infrared t...
In this Comment, the Author examines two recent Alaska Supreme Court decisions regarding privacy rig...
The right to privacy explicitly provided by the Alaska Constitution has long been broadly interprete...
Despite numerous attempts to subject the use of pretext law enforcement stops to Alaska Constitution...
As the United States Supreme Court expanded the scope and intensity limits of the stop and frisk doc...
In the eighteen years since Alaska achieved statehood, fifty-two cases involving issues of search an...
The authority of the police to enforce the statutory restrictions governing vehicle and traffic laws...
The issue this Note addresses is whether a police officer, during a routine traffic stop, violates a...
This note first discusses the Minnesota Supreme Court’s use of the Minnesota Constitution to provide...
In Part I, this Article briefly discusses the Whren decision. Part II discusses the three states tha...
The Minnesota Supreme Court recently addressed whether a Minnesota statute authorizing law enforceme...
This Article examines Alaska’s Recording Act. It details how Alaska is a Race-Notice state and the i...
In Whren v. United States, the United States Supreme Court held that a traffic stop is reasonable un...
The September 1978 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum leads with an article proposing alternatives to...
In New York v. United States, the Supreme Court set forth the rule that any federal law which direct...
In State v. Young, the Washington Supreme Court determined that the warrantless use of an infrared t...