CALDER v. STATE

No. 4293.

619 P.2d 1026 (1980)

Lance CALDER, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Ellen Ashton, Legal Intern, Walter Share, Asst. Public Defender, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

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

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


OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

This appeal presents two double jeopardy1 questions. Lance Calder pled nolo contendere in district court to a charge of reckless driving,2 committed while he was trying to evade the police. In connection with the same incident, he was also charged with assault with a dangerous weapon,3 as a result of driving his automobile into a police...

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