PEROZZO v. STATE

Court of Appeals No. A-12967.

493 P.3d 233 (2021)

James Henry PEROZZO, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

July 9, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence Blakely , Assistant Public Defender, and Samantha Cherot , Public Defender, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Michal Stryszak , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Criminal Appeals, Anchorage, and Kevin G. Clarkson , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Before: Allard, Chief Judge, and Wollenberg and Harbison, Judges.


OPINION

This appeal presents the question of whether a law enforcement officer conducting a routine traffic stop may request identification from a passenger in the vehicle and then use that identification to run a warrants check on the passenger, absent any case-specific justification for doing so. Because we conclude...

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