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STATE v. GIBSON

No. S-13509.

267 P.3d 645 (2012)

STATE of Alaska, Petitioner, v. Robert Duane GIBSON, III, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

January 13, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.H. Hawley , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Daniel S. Sullivan , Attorney General, Juneau, for Petitioner.

Sharon Barr , Assistant Public Defender, and Quinlan G. Steiner , Public Defender, Anchorage, for Respondent.

Before: CARPENETI, Chief Justice, FABE, WINFREE, CHRISTEN, and STOWERS, Justices.

OPINION

WINFREE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this appeal we consider the long-standing emergency aid exception to the general requirement that a search warrant be obtained prior to police entry into a residence. Today we establish that the Alaska Constitution's standards for justifying the doctrine's application go beyond those required by the United States Constitution, and we adopt the standards...

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