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ELSON v. STATE

No. 4967.

659 P.2d 1195 (1983)

Joel Anthony ELSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 18, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christine Schleuss, Asst. Public Defender, Anchorage, Erick M. Safire, Asst. Public Defender, Kenai, Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Rhonda F. Butterfield, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, Wilson L. Condon, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before BURKE, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ.

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

Joel Elson was convicted and sentenced to twenty-one months for possession of cocaine in violation of former AS 17.10.010. Elson's conviction and sentence were upheld by the Court of Appeals.1 We granted Elson's petition for hearing2 in order to review two facets of that decision. First, the Court of Appeals' holding that evidence concerning Elson's resistance to a "pat...

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