LEGA v. STATE

Court of Appeals No. A-11926.

425 P.3d 160 (2018)

Benjamin Vaitului LEGA, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

March 16, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjorie A. Mock , Anchorage, under contract with the Public Defender Agency, and Quinlan Steiner , Public Defender, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Michael Sean McLaughlin , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Criminal Appeals, Anchorage, and Craig W. Richards , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Before: Mannheimer, Chief Judge, Allard, Judge, and Suddock, Superior Court Judge.


OPINION

Benjamin Vaitului Lega was convicted of kidnapping and robbery, based on evidence that he and an accomplice, Arthur Gray, kidnapped and stole money from two Big Lake residents, Judy Holmes and Michael Gearing. The kidnapping was ended when the police conducted a traffic stop of the vehicle in which all four people...

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