SPENCER v. STATE

No. 4308.

611 P.2d 1 (1980)

Maria V. SPENCER, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 2, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah A. Paquette, 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., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice.


OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

This criminal appeal raises a speedy trial issue under Alaska Rule of Criminal Procedure 45. Maria Spencer pled nolo contendere to a charge of manslaughter. Pursuant to procedures mandated in Oveson v. Municipality of Anchorage, 574 P.2d 801, 803 n. 4 (Alaska 1978), her plea was explicitly conditioned on the right to appeal this speedy trial issue.1 Thus...

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