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Alaska Man Charged With Attempted Murder For Firing At Officer

The Crime Report

Alaska man Joseph Fagundes has now been charged with felony attempted murder for opening fire on an Anchorage police officer on Saturday, Joey Klecka reports for Alaska’s News Source.

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Alaska Police Chief Placed on Leave, Indicted on Alleged Off-Duty Assault

The Crime Report

In Ketchikan, Alaska, Police Chief Jeffrey Walls has been placed on leave after a grand jury indicted him on six charges, including felony assault, Tim Rockey reports for the Alaska News Source. The incident allegedly occurred while Walls was off duty at the Salmon Falls Resort in Ketchikan.

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Illinois Scores Top Rank in Reintegrating Ex-Incarcerees, Alaska is Lowest

The Crime Report

A companion “report card” ranking all 50 states according to how well they measure up in nine different areas of reentry and reintegration gives Illinois the highest marks and places Alaska at the bottom. and then assigning an overall ranking for each state. Washington D.C. in the past 50 years. “We

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Former acting AG for Alaska is charged with sexual abuse of minor on mock trial team

ABA Journal

Clyde “Ed” Sniffen, a former acting attorney general for Alaska, has been indicted on three felony charges of sexual abuse of a minor following accusations…

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Does Expunging Criminal Records Offer a More Feasible Re-entry? 

The Crime Report

So-called “second chance laws” involving felony charges often take longer to clear than misdemeanors. In addition, as part of the law, former offenders don’t have to check yes when asked if they’ve committed a felony, which often works as a barrier for formerly incarcerated people.

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Alaska’s Justice System Struggles to Define Mental ‘Competency’

The Crime Report

In Alaska, a man accused of assaulting a woman behind a grocery store who was later found incompetent to stand trial for multiple felonies including assault, sexual assault, and robbery, and was then released back into the community, has highlighted a major flaw in the state’s criminal justice system, reports Alaska’s News Source.

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Status quo watch

SCOTUSBlog

But the court denied review without recorded dissent to two-time relist Alaska v. Alaska State Employees Association , involving whether the nation’s largest state is doing enough to protect the First Amendment rights of state employee union members. The rest of last installment ’s relists are back for another go-round.

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