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Carman v. State

Citations

  • 602 P.2d 1255
  • 1979 Alas. LEXIS 692

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the giving of the Mann instruction was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt in part because “whether Carman possessed the specific intent to steal did not become one of singular importance in [the] case”
  • concluding search was legal because there was no notice purse belonged to visiting sister of one of three men living on premises, and police had no duty to solicit information as to ownership
  • \we do not think that the police had a duty to solicit [who owned specific objects]\
  • “we do not think that the police had a duty to solicit [who owned specific objects]”
  • court held that defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in visiting sister's purse
  • court held that defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in visiting sister’s purse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Connor, Rabinowitz, Con-Nor, Boochever, Burke, Matthews

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