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Rust v. State

Citations

  • 584 P.2d 38
  • 1978 Alas. LEXIS 696

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  • noting that the state may commit a person likely to harm others under its police powers, commit a gravely disabled person under the state's parens patriae power, and commit a person likely to harm himself under a combination of both these state powers
  • Criminal Rule 35(a) is not the appropriate procedural vehicle to seek relief from conditions within custodial institutions or to assert the civil rights of inmates
  • litigant incorrectly filed a Criminal Rule 35 motion challenging conditions of his confinement; subsequent proceedings would occur as if he had filed an independent civil action

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Judges: Witz, Boochever, Rabi-Nowitz, Connor, Burke, Matthews

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