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SOVALIK v. STATE

No. 2109.

612 P.2d 1003 (1980)

Thomas SOVALIK, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 27, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Stewart, Asst. Public Defender, Fairbanks, Brian C. Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

James P. Doogan, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Harry L. Davis, Dist. Atty., Fairbanks, Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

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

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

On August 29, 1977, the North Slope Borough police in Barrow received a report that two human bodies had been discovered. Barrow police officers immediately traveled to the place of discovery, a stretch of beach on the Arctic Ocean some five miles from Barrow and almost a mile from the nearest human habitation. Upon arrival, the officers found the bodies of Gregory Jay Underwood and Donna Hendershot in sleeping bags in a small...

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