Alexander v. City of Anchorage

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• recognizing that article I, section 11 of the Alaska Constitution — and by extension, AS 18.85.100, the Public Defender Act — guarantees an indigent defendant in a criminal prosecution the right to the assistance of counsel
• interpreting state constitutional right to counsel in all criminal prosecutions as requiring counsel in cases in which there is imprisonment, loss of a valuable license, or a heavy fine indicating the criminality of the offense
• extending the right to counsel to all criminal prosecutions involving the possibility of incarceration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).