"The trial is set to start next Monday in Kotzebue, a town of about 3300 people north of the Arctic Circle. To anyone from Alaska reading this, it is no big secret which case this is. My client is a former police officer from Nome charged with murder of a local resident. The case was tried before in January and the trial ended in a hung jury. I wound up with it for the second trial and while I do not want to say that I am overwhelmed, I will say that this case has absolutely consumed my life." ...
This attorney worked in the other side of the building I was in this summer, when I interned for the Public Defender in Palmer, Alaska. His blog is excellent, as the above-linked post of his shows.
