Court Opinion

ID: 9541840
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:28:58.385324+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:04:59.662901
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BURKE, Justice,
dissenting in part.
I dissent from that part of the court’s opinion holding, as a matter of law, that article I, section 9 of the Alaska Constitution provides no greater protection to Pratt than does the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Although the two provisions are virtually identical, I would interpret them differently in this instance.
I would adopt the interpretation advocated by the late Justice Douglas in his dissenting opinion in Bellis v. United States, 417 U.S. 85, 101-05, 94 S.Ct. 2179, 2189-91, 40 L.Ed.2d 678, 691-93 (1974) (Douglas, J., dissenting). Thus, I would remand to the *971superior court, with instructions to determine the validity of Pratt’s state constitutional claim according to that standard.