PADIE v. STATE

No. 3402.

566 P.2d 1024 (1977)

Roger A. PADIE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Alaska, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

July 22, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendell P. Kay, Kay, Christie, Fuld and Saville, and John Anthony Smith, Anchorage, for petitioner.

Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau and Joseph D. Balfe, Dist. Atty., Anchorage, for respondent.

Before BOOCHEVER, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR and BURKE, JJ., and DIMOND, J. Pro Tem.


OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

In this case we are called upon to decide whether the parties to a criminal action are entitled to select, as a matter of right, the particular judge before whom the defendant will enter a plea of guilty or nolo contendere. Believing this question to be of sufficient substance and importance to justify deviation from the normal appellate process, whereby we generally review only issues raised by way of an appeal from a final...

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