Paul W. Ingram v. State Alaska

Paul W. Ingram was convicted, following a jury trial, of one count of selling LSD, in violation of former AS 17.12.010, and one count of misconduct involving weapons in the third degree, in violation of AS 11.61.220(a)(1). Superior Court Seaborn J. Buckalew, Jr., sentenced Ingram to serve concurrent terms of seven years with one year suspended for the drug charge and ninety days for misconduct involving weapons. On appeal, Ingram argues that the superior court erred in declining to suppress evidence illegally seized by the police. Ingram further asserts that he was not tried within the 120-day period provided for under Alaska Criminal Rule 45, that the prosecution improperly presented hearsay evidence to the grand jury, and that the trial court erred in admitting photocopies of buy-money and refusing to give an informer instruction to the jury. Finally, Ingram maintains that the sentence he received is excessive.