ERICKSON v. STATE

No. A-8942.

181 P.3d 1117 (2008)

Joseph E. ERICKSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

April 25, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcia E. Holland, Assistant Public Defender, Fairbanks, and Barbara K. Brink and Quinlan G. Steiner, Public Defenders, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Kenneth M. Rosenstein, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and David W. Márquez and Talis J. Colberg, Attorneys General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

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


OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Joseph E. Erickson was riding in a car as a passenger when an Alaska State Trooper stopped the car for not having a front license plate. When the trooper asked Erickson for identification, Erickson claimed to have no documents proving his identity, and then (verbally) he falsely identified himself to the trooper as "Chris Erickson".

When the trooper entered this false information into the APSIN database (the Alaska...

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