COCHRANE v. STATE

No. 4479.

629 P.2d 512 (1980)

Robert COCHRANE, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Share, Asst. Public Defender, Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, and John Vacek, Alaska Legal Services Corp., Kodiak, for appellant.

David Mannheimer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

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


ORDER

IT IS ORDERED, sua sponte:

This petition for bail review is dismissed as moot.

RABINOWITZ, C.J., dissents from this order for the reasons stated in the attached dissenting opinion.

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice, dissenting.

I dissent from the order dismissing the case as moot. The issue presented by this case is the constitutionality of the following provision from the bail statute, AS 12.30.040(b):

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