Marcus Love v. Amanda Brown

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “Alaska’s atypically strict evidentiary standards for grand jury proceedings reflect the constitutional framers’ concerns about prosecutors’ control over what the grand jury hears”
• reversing without harmless error review for violation of defendant's right to valid grand jury indictment
• noting Alaska’s standards are “atypically strict” compared with those applied by federal courts and courts of other states
• emphasizing “the grand jury’s importance as a preliminary step in felony prosecutions” and as a “critical part of Alaska’s constitutional framework”
• summarizing discussion of amendment at Committee on the Preamble and the Bill of Rights during Proceedings of Alaska Constitutional Convention
• discussing reliability concerns of police reports as basis for inadmissibility under Alaska Evidence Rule 803(8) hearsay exception

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).