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SUMDUM v. STATE

No. 2117.

612 P.2d 1018 (1980)

Rick Shane SUMDUM, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 27, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Wyant McGowen, Law Office of Thomas W. Findley, Juneau, for appellant.

Larry W. Weeks, Dist. Atty., Daniel W. Hickey, Chief Prosecutor, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

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

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

The defendant, Rick Sumdum, contends that the police entry into his motel room was the product of an illegal search, and that the evidence of stolen goods found on his person pursuant to that entry should be suppressed. The superior court denied the motion to suppress1 and we affirm.

At 5:30 a.m., May 7, 1978, Pete Heger was awakened by an intruder in his motel room at the Driftwood Lodge in...

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