PETERSON v. STATE

No. A-8818.

133 P.3d 730 (2006)

Darrell Lee PETERSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

April 21, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Krista Maciolek, Assistant Public Advocate, Palmer, and Joshua P. Fink, Public Advocate, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Kenneth J. Diemer, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and David W. Márquez, Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Before: COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and STEWART, Judges.


OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Darrell Lee Peterson appeals his convictions for two counts of fourth-degree controlled substance misconduct (possession of cocaine and methamphetamine) and one count of evidence tampering. He contends that the police obtained the evidence against him during an illegal investigative stop.

For the reasons explained here, we conclude that the challenged investigative stop was lawful, and we therefore affirm Peterson...

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