Baker v. City of Fairbanks

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the right to a jury trial does not extend to administrative proceeding involving loss of a guiding license where fitness to practice that profession is the primary concern
• extending the right to jury trial to all criminal cases where the defendant faces any period of incarceration or the loss of a valuable license
• noting choice between maximum-possible-punishment-only and tolality-of-the-offense approaches to determining whether crime is \petty” or \serious,” and preferring latter, although ultimately rejecting petty/serious distinction entirely
• right to trial by jury for minor offenses, overruling Knudsen v. City of Anchorage, 358 P.2d 375 (Alaska 1960)
• Alaska Constitution requires jury trial for any offense that involves a possibility of incarceration or loss of valuable license
• broad availability of jury trial for petty offenses when constitution was adopted

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