More than 250 cases of domestic violence: Dismissed. At least 70 cases of child neglect or abuse: Dismissed. More than 270 DUI cases: Dismissed. Only 3 criminal defendants in Anchorage misdemeanor cases have gone to trial since May. Here’s why.
An effort to clear a backlog in the court system, combined with a lack of prosecutors, has led hundreds of people charged with an array of criminal misdemeanors in Alaska’s most-populous city to have ...
Heads should roll.
Alaska is a third world country we happen to own.
UPDATE: The state has offered to send up to 10 prosecutors to Anchorage, days after the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica reported that hundreds of misdemeanor cases had been dropped since May because the city couldn’t hit court deadlines for speedy trials.
The state offered to send up to 10 prosecutors to Anchorage days after the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica reported that hundreds of misdemeanor cases had been dropped since May because the city c...
people are going to end up dead because of this. what the FUCK.
Leave it to Alaska to literally "suck on ice". What the fuck.
They literally did a show in the '90s about how you get professionals to relocate to Alaska.
Had to stop reading about ⅓ of the way through. I’m not sure what we are fucking doing as a civilization.
This is abhorrent.
now they could just put 'em on the ice