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DAY v. WILLIS

No. S-5543.

897 P.2d 78 (1995)

The ESTATE OF James Thomas DAY, by his personal representatives, Harvey Strosin and Emma Strosin, and Desiarlle Dawn Day, by her next friends, Harvey Strosin and Emma Strosin, Appellants, v. James WILLIS, Robert W. Leger, State of Alaska and State of Alaska, Department of Transportation and Public Facilities for Anchorage International Airport Security, jointly and severally, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 30, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl Frasure, Anchorage, for appellants.

Venable Vermont, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, Charles E. Cole, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellees.

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

OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

The issue before the court is whether law enforcement officers owe a legal duty to fleeing offenders to refrain from pursuing them in order to protect the offenders from harm that may arise from the offenders' own actions during a high speed pursuit. We hold that they do not.

I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

In June 1985 Anchorage International Airport Security Officer James Willis was on a routine perimeter...

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