Slow Justice
Why Some Alaska Criminal Cases Drag on for Years
Although Alaska court rules say defendants must go on trial within 120 days from arrest, judges have routinely granted requests for postponement that delay resolution. Victims have died waiting to see their alleged attackers face a jury.
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Anchorage Police Say They Witnessed a Sexual Assault in Public. It Took Seven Years for the Case to Go to Trial.
In Alaska, where the time to resolve most serious felony cases has nearly tripled over the past decade, one case was delayed so long that both victims died. A former prosecutor called it “a travesty of justice.”
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