The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed a bench-trial judgment holding the State liable for negligent winter maintenance of an icy, rutted curve on the Seward Highway where 13-year-old Brenda Vogt suffered severe brain damage, but vacated the $266,000 damages award for lack of Civil Rule 52(a) findings and remanded for a…
Alaska Supreme Court, 1972
Published opinions from 1972. The case name opens the case page.
1972 opinions
AlaskaNelson Patrick Marks, Appellant v. State of Alaska, Appellee
April 21, 19721972 Alas. LEXIS 263
The Alaska Supreme Court reversed Marks's conviction for sale of LSD and directed that the indictment be dismissed with prejudice, holding that an unexplained eight-month delay between the alleged offense and the indictment, combined with Marks's prima facie showing of prejudice at trial, denied him due process under…