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· 12/15/1978

Moreau v. State

Citations

  • 588 P.2d 275
  • 1978 Alas. LEXIS 643

How courts have described this case

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

  • ruling that errors requiring the suppression of evidence may not be raised for the first time on appeal unless they are singularly egregious
  • holding that, absent exceptional circumstances, potential violations of the Fourth Amendment will not be treated as \plain error\
  • holding that Fourth Amendment claims can not be raised for the first time on appeal
  • holding that a codefendant voluntarily waived his Sixth Amendment right to individual counsel but requiring trial courts to apply stricter standards for dual representation in future cases, modeled after Minnesota precedent
  • finding that failure to assert Fourth Amendment claim at trial amounts to waiver absent an egregious violation
  • barring egregious circumstances, search and seizure violations can not be raised on appeal if they were not raised in the trial court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Boochever, C.J. and Rabinowitz, Connor, Burke and Matthews

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