context: Within the context of a different legal issue, our Supreme Court declined to impose a duty on law enforcement officials to consent to defense interviews.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 169 P.3d 602, 608
citation_a.parenthetical: finding certain provisions of the Alaska Victims' Right Act of 1991, Alaska Stat. SSSS 12.61.100 to -.150, were unconstitutional because they interfered with criminal defense investigations without adequate justification
citation_a.sentence: See also State v. Murtagh, 169 P.3d 602, 608 (Alaska 2007) (finding certain provisions of the Alaska Victims’ Right Act of 1991, Alaska Stat. §§ 12.61.100 to -.150, were unconstitutional because they interfered with criminal defense investigations without adequate justification).
citation_b.signal: cf.
citation_b.identifier: 266 F.Supp. 930, 935-36
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that medical examiner's order to toxicologist not to speak with accused, his counsel or experts, violated defendant's constitutional rights
citation_b.sentence: Cf. Coppolino v. Helpern, 266 F.Supp. 930, 935-36 (S.D.N.Y.1967) (holding that medical examiner’s order to toxicologist not to speak with accused, his counsel or experts, violated defendant’s constitutional rights); but see Fenenbock, supra, 681 F.3d at 970-71, 974 (finding no violation of constitutional rights when an agency unrelated to the prosecution, acting in the interest of a witness who was a minor, denied pretrial access to eight defendants).