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WELTIN v. STATE

No. 2932.

574 P.2d 816 (1978)

Kent C. WELTIN, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 17, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edgar Paul Boyko and Mitchel J. Schapira of Edgar Paul Boyko & Associates, P.C., Anchorage, for appellant.

Dean J. Guaneli, Asst. Atty. Gen., David Shimek, Asst. Dist. Atty., Fairbanks, Daniel W. Hickey, Chief Prosecutor and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before BOOCHEVER, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

The central issue in this appeal concerns the superior court's denial of Weltin's motion to suppress. Appellant was indicted for the crime of possession of cocaine.1 He subsequently filed a motion to suppress as evidence a vial and its contents which had been removed from his pocket. This motion was grounded on the assertion that the vial had been taken from him pursuant to an unreasonable search...

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