SNIDER v. STATE

No. 1592.

958 P.2d 1114 (1998)

Robert W. SNIDER, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

May 22, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Herz, Assistant Public Defender, Palmer, and Barbara K. Brink, Public Defender, Anchorage, for Appellant.

W.H. Hawley, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Bruce M. Botelho, Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellee.

Before COATS, C.J., MANNHEIMER, J., and RABINOWITZ, Senior Supreme Court Justice.


RABINOWITZ, Senior Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

The primary question raised in this appeal concerns the proper scope of a warrantless search incident to a lawful arrest.

II. FACTS AND PROCEDURES

Robert W. Snider went for a walk, armed and intoxicated, along Bogard Road in Wasilla on August 13, 1994. The police received a complaint that Snider, while walking along Bogard Road, was waiving a handgun in...

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