Alvarado Revisited: A Missing Element in Alaska’s Quest to Provide Impartial Juries for Rural Alaskans

• Main Author: May, Jeff D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Duke University School of Law 2011
• Subjects: Civil Rights and Discrimination; Criminal Procedure; Fairbanks; Alvarado; Alaska law review; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/alr/vol28/iss2/2; https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=alr

In Alvarado v. State, the Alaska Supreme Court declared that an impartial jury is a cross section of the community and that the community where the events at issue transpired must be represented in the jury. This decision spurred changes to jury selection procedures and the creation of Criminal Rule...