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ALASKA PUBLIC DEFENDER AGCY. v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. 3842.

584 P.2d 1106 (1978)

ALASKA PUBLIC DEFENDER AGENCY, JUNEAU OFFICE, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Alaska, FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT JUNEAU, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 29, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Share, Asst. Public Defender and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for petitioner.

Patrick J. Gullufsen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daniel W. Hickey, Chief Pros., and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for respondent.

Donna F. Page, Asst. City/Borough Atty., Juneau, filed opposition on behalf of City & Borough of Juneau.

Before BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice, RABINOWITZ, CONNOR and BURKE, Justices, and DIMOND, Senior Justice.

OPINION

DIMOND, Senior Justice.

The issue here is whether the Alaska Public Defender Agency had the authority to represent a person who was accused of violating subsection (2) of a Juneau municipal ordinance relating to the offense of harassment.1 The district and superior courts decided such authority was lacking, and the person accused of the offense then went to trial in the district court without being represented by counsel...

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