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BRIDGE v. STATE

No. A-10176.

258 P.3d 923 (2011)

Wendell D. BRIDGE, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

August 5, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Schwaiger , Assistant Public Defender, and Quinlan Steiner , Public Defender, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Anne D. Carpeneti , Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division Central Office, Juneau (brief), Timothy W. Terrell , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage (oral argument), and Daniel S. Sullivan , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

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

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

This appeal requires us to clarify the meaning of the term "correctional facility" for purposes of the second-degree escape statute, AS 11.56.310. Under subsection (a)(1)(A) of this statute, a person commits the felony of second-degree escape if they unlawfully remove themself "from a correctional facility" while they are under official detention for any crime, even a misdemeanor.

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