BEATTIE v. STATE

No. A-10505.

258 P.3d 888 (2011)

Thomas M. BEATTIE, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

June 24, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane B. Martinez , Contract Attorney, and Quinlan Steiner , Public Defender, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Diane L. Wendlandt , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Daniel S. Sullivan , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

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


OPINION

BOLGER, Judge.

Thomas M. Beattie was tried for felony driving under the influence, a charge that required the State to prove that Beattie had at least two prior convictions for driving under the influence within the preceding ten years.1 The superior court granted Beattie's request to bifurcate his trial, so that the jury would hear no evidence of Beattie's prior convictions unless and until they found Beattie...

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