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Roberts v. State

Citations

  • 458 P.2d 340
  • 1969 Alas. LEXIS 199

How courts have described this case

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

  • extending right to counsel to prisoner from whom the police sought to obtain a handwriting exemplar after indictment and appointment of counsel
  • extending the right to counsel to a prisoner from whom the police sought to obtain a post-indictment handwriting exemplar
  • conviction reversed where defendant charged with forgery was required to give handwriting exemplars to police despite his request that his attorney first be contacted
  • error found where handwriting exemplar taken without knowing waiver of constitutional right to counsel
  • error found where handwriting exemplar taken without knowing waiver of constitutional right to counsel
  • “We are not bound in expounding the Alaska Constitution’s Declaration of Rights by the decisions of the United States Supreme Court, past or future, which expound identical or closely similar provisions of the United States Constitution.”

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Judges: Nesbett, C.J., and Dimond, Rabinowitz, Boney and Connor

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