CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU v. QUINTO

No. S-4.

684 P.2d 127 (1984)

CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU, Petitioner, v. Marcelo QUINTO, Jr., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 29, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Leque, Asst. City-Borough Atty., and Gerald L. Sharp, City-Borough Atty., Juneau, for petitioner.

David Mannheimer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, and Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for amicus State of Alaska.

Susan Orlansky, Asst. Public Defender, and Dana Fabe, Public Defender, Anchorage, for amicus Public Defender Agency.

Before BURKE, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

BURKE, Chief Justice.

The issue in this case is one involving an individual's right to privacy under the Alaska Constitution.1 The question to be determined is whether a tape recording of a suspect's conversation with a police officer was properly admitted into evidence at the suspect's trial, when the suspect knew, or reasonably should have known, that he was speaking to a police officer, but was not aware that the officer...

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