Fairbanks, Alaska - The state charged Marvin L. Roberts, Kevin W. Pease, Eugene G. Vent, and George C. Frese with the assault and robbery of Franklin Dayton and the robbery, sexual assault, and murder of John Hartman. The crimes occurred during the early morning hours of October 11, 1997.

Arlo Olson testified that he witnessed the assault of Franklin Dayton. Olson attended a wedding rec... More...    $0 (07-28-1999 - AK)

Fairbanks, Alaska: Marvin L. Roberts was convicted of second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and second-degree assault.

On Ocboer 11, 1997, 15-year-old John Hartman was beaten and sexually assaulted. He died on October 12, 1997.

Police arrested Engene Vent who allegedly confessed and identified Marvin Roberts, age 19, and others for assaulting Hartman.

George... More...    $0 (12-31-1999 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska personal injury car wreck lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendant on an auto negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in damages and/or injuries.

Alaska Auto Negligence Law Overview:

"1. Comparative Fault:

Modified Comparative Fault: Alaska follows a modified comparative fault system. This means that even if you... More...    $1 (03-14-2023 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on excessive force wrongful death theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983.


Plaintiffs brought this suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, and 1986 seeking redress for alleged violations of Plaintiffs' federal constitutional rights guaranteed by the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments.[51] The Court has ju... More...    $0 (05-09-2023 - AK)

"The judge in a criminal jury trial plays a variety of important roles, including:

Presiding over the trial: The judge is responsible for maintaining order in the courtroom and ensuring that the trial proceeds fairly. This includes making rulings on evidentiary objections, instructing the jury on the law, and ensuring that both the prosecution and defense have a fair opportunity to pr... More...    $0 (02-05-2020 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempted bank robbery.

Maquire Malo Levi, 24, spotted a running vehicle in the Dimond Center parking lot in November 2019. Levi got into the driver’s seat of the car and began to drive away. A 16-year-old-boy in the back seat of the vehicle punched the defendant at which point Levi elbowed the boy in the face.... More...    $0 (04-18-2022 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska personal injury car wreck lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued the United States on a Federal Tort Claims Act auto negligence theory claiming to have been injured and/or damages as a direct result of a motor vehicle accident caused by federal government employee.... More...    $0 (11-08-2021 - AK)

Juneau, Alaska criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with illegally possessing a firearm.

Pharoah Akhenaten, aka Curtis Burchfield, 41, pulled a firearm on a Juneau police officer in an effort to stop his arrest on an underlying warrant. Due to prior felony convictions punishable by more than one year in prison, Akhenaten is prohibited from possessing firearms and ammuni... More...    $0 (02-09-2022 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

On July 31, 2020 Ronald Fetuao Maefau, 45, drove a car to an Anchorage apartment complex and began firing multiple rounds into one of the units. He then proceeded to drive away. Later the same day, APD made a traffic stop of the car used in the apartment shooting and to... More...    $0 (01-09-2022 - AK)

Anchorage, AK: Personal injury car wreck lawyer lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on auto negligence insurance law theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an accident caused by a third party. ... More...    $0 (07-19-2021 - AK)

Anchorage, AK: Personal injury car wreck lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Federal Tort Claims Act auto negligence theory claiming to have suffered $454,000 in damages and/or injuries as a direct result of an accident caused by the failure to exercise due care on the part of a federal government employee while driving a motor vehicle. ... More...    $1 (04-29-2021 - AK)

Juneau, AK: Personal injury car wreck wrongful death lawyer represented Plaintiff, as Successor in Interest of the Estate of Diedre Eckle, and individually, who sued Defendant on auto negligence and wrongful death theories claiming to have suffered more than $5 million in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an accident caused by Defendant. ... More...    $1 (04-08-2021 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska armed robbery charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Cloyd Lacap Jr., 22, who was charged for robbing two individuals at gun point after arranging to meet them for the supposed purpose of purchasing items each had listed for sale online.

The first robbery took place in the parking lot of Balto Seppala Park in Anchorage where Lacap had arranged to meet th... More...    $0 (04-13-2021 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska car wreck personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, Harlan W. Blackburn, who sued Harlan W. Blackburn on a personal injury auto negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of a car wreck caused by Blackburn.

This case was filed in the Alaska Superior Court, 3AN-19-09696 CI, and was removed to federal cou... More...    $1 (01-18-2021 - AK)

Anchorage, AK - Kelly S. Benefit sued Geico Insurance Company on an auto insurance law theory claiming to have been injured and/or damages in a car wreck for which Geico was legally liable.

This case was filed in the Superior Court, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, case no.: 3AN-19-04381 CI, and was removed to federal court by Geico.... More...    $1 (12-31-2019 - AK)

Anchorage, AK - Christopher Granger sued Regina Kitiona on an auto negligence personal injury theory and Garrison Property and Casualty Insurance Company on auto insurance liability theories claiming to have been injured and/or damaged in a car wreck caused by Kitiona.

This case was filed in the Superior Court, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, case No.: 3AN-19-08000 CI, and was removed to fede... More...    $0 (12-31-2019 - AK)

Anchorage, AK - California Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Federal Drug and Gun Offenses in Anchorage

A California man was sentenced on March 9, 2017 for federal drug and gun offenses in Anchorage.

Abreain Terron Dalton, 36, of Victorville, California, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess, to serve 15 years in prison, followed by a five-year term of supervi... More...    $0 (03-19-2018 - AK)

Wells’ convictions arise out of the deaths of Richard W. Belisle and James A. Hopkins, federal employees and Wells’ co-workers at the United States Coast Guard (“USCG”) antenna maintenance facility, located at the USCG Communication Station (“COMMSTA”) on Kodiak Island, Alaska. COMMSTA consists of two main buildings: a large operations center, known as T1; and the antenna maintenance facility, or ... More...    $0 (12-21-2017 - AK)

Defendant-Appellant James Michael Wells (“Wells”) appeals from his jury trial convictions for two counts of First Degree Murder, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1111(a), (b); two counts of Murder of a Federal Employee, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1114, 1111; and two counts of Use of a Firearm in Relation to a Crime of Violence Resulting in Death, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c), (j). Wells was se... More...    $0 (12-20-2017 - AK)

Bethel, AK - Adrain Hoffman sued former Behtel Police Officer Aaron Fedolfi and Bethel Police Department on auto negligence and respondeat superior theories claimed to have been injured and/or damaged in a car wreck in Bethel in 2014 when, while he was handcuffed in the back seat of a police vehicle, Fedolfi failed to exercise due care in the operation of the vehicle that he was driving by speedin... More...    $140000 (07-16-2016 - AK)

Anchorage, AK - Anchorage Man sentenced to 126 months in prison for armed robbery crime
today that an Anchorage man has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to s

Miguel J. Batista, 28, previously pled guilty to interference with commerce by robbery and to brandishing and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence. As part of his guilty plea, Batista admitted th... More...    $0 (04-05-2016 - AK)

On March 5, 2009, Sabil Mumin Mujahid was arrested in Anchorage, Alaska after officers found a firearm in the trunk of a car he had driven to the Nesbett Courthouse for a bail hearing on a pending state drug charge. Mujahid was taken to the Anchorage Correctional Complex, which provides
UNITED STATES V. MUJAHID4 housing for state prisoners as well as federal prisoners pursuant to a contract w... More...    $0 (08-30-2015 - AK)

Anchorage, AK - United States District Court Judge, Ralph R. Beistline, sentenced an Anchorage man, Stuart T. Seugasala, a.k.a. “Tone,â€� age 40, to three terms of life imprisonment following his January 2015 convictions on drug trafficking conspiracy and two kidnapping charges. Judge Beistline imposed a consecutive seven year sentence on firearms violations, as well as concurrent ten year term... More...    $0 (05-18-2015 - AK)

Anchorage, AK - A jury has found an Anchorage man guilty of two drug trafficking crimes based on his efforts to distribute methamphetamine in June and October of 2014.

Boonchan Yang, a/k/a “Chowmein,â€� 22, of Anchorage, Alaska, was convicted by the jury after only an hour of deliberation. He was found guilty first of distributing $1100 worth of methamphetamine on June 19, 2014. Four ... More...    $0 (05-06-2015 - Ak)

Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that two Eagle River residents were sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for conspiring to manufacture and pass counterfeit money at local businesses in Eagle River.

Matthew Daley, 29, and Christa Speiser, 30, were sentenced on October 1, by United States District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess. Daley was sentenced t... More...    $0 (10-03-2014 - AK)

Several state law questions arise in this appeal, and three federal law questions, whether expert testimony should have been excluded under Daubert1, whether disallowance of a

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2 Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986).

3 Alaska Civil Procedure Rule 82.

4 “We recount the relevant facts in the manner most favorable to the ... More...    $0 (06-21-2013 - AK)

Cherry Dietzmann sued the City of Homer, Alaska on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming that her son was shot and suffered permanent severe brain damage during a shootout between the boy's father and law enforcement officers at the Homer, Alaska airport.

The defendants denied that they shot the boy and claimed that his father shot him and then shot himself.
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This appeal arises from a declaratory action filed by an insurer to clarify the terms of its duties under a policy. The underlying tort action resulted from a car accident in which the insured, while driving a rental truck, hit a person who was lying in the middle of the road. Both the driver and the person struck were intoxicated, as was a passenger in the truck. The person who was struck died fr... More...    $0 (01-25-2013 - AK)

A tenant fell on the outside stairs of her rented apartment and sustained a serious back injury. When she fell, one of the wooden stairs broke. She sued her landlord, from whom she subleased the apartment, alleging that her fall was caused by the landlord’s negligent failure to inspect and maintain the staircase.

Before trial, the tenant filed a series of motions in limine, including one ... More...    $0 (02-01-2013 - AK)

In December 2008 Michael Cooper caused a car accident that injured Samuel Thompson. Thompson sued Cooper and Cooper’s employer for compensatory and punitive damages. The jury returned a verdict for Thompson for compensatory damages, but not for punitive damages. The parties appeal rulings on evidentiary issues, jury instructions, and denied motions. We affirm most of the superior court’s rulin... More...    $0 (09-28-2012 - AK)

Two nieces, acting as co-guardians for their elderly uncle, sued their uncle’s
former caregiver for misuse and misappropriation of his assets; the caregiver
counterclaimed for compensation for services rendered. After a bench trial, the superior
court: (1) determined the caregiver had committed fraud and breached fiduciary duties;
(2) awarded damages against the caregiver for her... More...    $0 (07-20-2012 - AK)

At issue in this case are the coverage limits associated with underinsured motorist (UIM) insurance and whether coverage provided under disputed insurance policies complies with the requirements of Alaska insurance statutes. The respondent families hold UIM policies. They allege that they have suffered emotional distress and loss of consortium as a result of a collision that killed one family’s ... More...    $0 (08-26-2011 - AK)

Habib Azimi was involved in a car accident and subsequently brought a pro se personal injury suit against the other driver, David Johns. At a pretrial conference, Azimi requested a continuance on medical grounds. The superior court denied the request, finding no evidence that Azimi was unable to participate at trial.

Johns subsequently filed a motion for partial summary judgment on Azimi’... More...    $0 (05-27-2011 - AK)

An employee filed suit against her employer for wrongful termination after her union refused to take her grievance to arbitration under the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Relevant federal law required the employee to prove as part of her wrongful termination claim that her union had breached its duty of fair representation when handling her grievance.1 During trial the employer twice ... More...    $0 (04-15-2011 - AK)