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WERTZ v. STATE

No. 4683.

611 P.2d 8 (1980)

Larry WERTZ, Appellee, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 25, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Harry L. Davis, Dist. Atty., Fairbanks, 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.

In a much-publicized incident in the summer of 1977, Larry Wertz attached sixty-three sticks of dynamite to the Alyeska oil pipeline near Fairbanks and exploded them.1 The explosion did about $45,000 worth of damage to the pipeline, but did not interrupt the transmission of oil or cause an oil spill. After a jury trial, Wertz was convicted of malicious destruction of property (former AS 11.20...

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