Anderson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that tossing away evidence constitutes evidence tampering only when the evidence is destroyed or its recovery is made “substantially more difficult or impossible”
• holding that tossing away evidence constitutes evidence tampering only when the evidence is destroyed or its recovery is made “substantially more difficult or impossible”
• concluding that the act of “tossing” a handgun and ammunition from a car window while being pursued by the police did not constitute the crime of evidence tampering
• remanding for reconsideration of the defendant’s sentence when the court found legally impermissible aggravating factors based on conduct for which the defendant had been separately convicted
• “[t]he test appears to be whether the defendant disposed of the evidence in a manner that destroyed it or that made its recovery substantially more difficult or impossible”
• “This is not to say that the act of tossing away evidence can never constitute evidence tampering. The test appears to be whether the defendant disposed of the evidence in a manner that destroyed it or that made its recovery substantially more difficult or impossible.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Thornton, Gregory
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-04-02· cited 270×
• State of Tennessee v. Ledarren S. Hawkins
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2013-06-20· cited 209×
• People v. Comage
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2011-02-25· cited 54×
• Young v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2016-06-17· cited 43×
• Y.J. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2006-03-03· cited 13×
• TEGOSEAK v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2009-12-11· cited 10×
• People v. COMAGE
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2009-11-17· cited 5×
• Douglas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2006-12-22· cited 5×
• Stepovich v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2013-04-26· cited 4×
• State v. Daoud
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2009-02-18· cited 3×
• YJ v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2006-03-03
• Stahmann, Karl Dean
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2020-04-22
• Christopher Brandon Baines v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2023-07-28
• Michael Steven Cunningham v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2023-08-25
• QUANAVIS LADON PENDER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2023-06-09
• Jeffrey Eric Brigman v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2022-04-22

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Stovall v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 6,066×
• Manson v. Brathwaite
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 5,119×
• Juneby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-03-11· cited 147×
• Mutschler v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-02-16· cited 85×
• Neal v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-05-08· cited 62×
• State v. Wentz
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1991-02-01· cited 49×
• State v. Foreshaw
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-04-10· cited 46×
• People v. Hughes
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-03-30· cited 31×
• Vigue v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1999-09-03· cited 30×
• People v. Armstrong
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2004-10-21· cited 30×
• Holden v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-11-09· cited 29×
• State v. Sababu Hodari
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2000-03-03· cited 26×
• M.F. v. M.F.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-08-02· cited 22×
• State v. Mendez
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2002-11-14· cited 18×
• State v. Norrid
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-05-25· cited 15×
• Viveros v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-02-21· cited 15×
• People v. Brake
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2003-01-27· cited 15×
• In Re MF
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-08-02· cited 15×
• State v. Sparks
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1995-09-26· cited 14×