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STATE v. WILLIAMS

No. 6025.

681 P.2d 313 (1984)

STATE of Alaska, Petitioner, v. Travis Dean WILLIAMS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 13, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Merriner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for petitioner.

Charlene A. Lichtmann and David J. Schmid, Kay, Christie, Saville & Coffey, Anchorage, for respondent.

Susan Orlansky, Asst. Public Defender, Dana Fabe, Public Defender, Anchorage, for amicus curiae the Public Defender Agency.

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

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

The state challenges the constitutionality of Alaska's speedy trial rule, Criminal Rule 45. In the event that the 120-day rule is upheld, the state further contends that the Court of Appeals erred in holding the rule violated.

The facts underlying this proceeding are as follows. Thomas Andrus was strangled to death with an appliance cord. Shortly thereafter, Travis Williams placed the body in a pickup truck, drove a short...

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