James A. Ridgley v. State Alaska

After being convicted of murder and other offenses related to the August 1982 killing of Mildred Landesman, the appellants, James A. Ridgely, Jr., William G. Plumley, and Shelley Ann Bosch, appealed their convictions to this court. In Ridgely v. State, 705 P.2d 924 (Alaska App. 1985), we described the circumstances surrounding the offenses and rejected any of the arguments raised by the appellants, but found that a confession given by Ridgely was involuntary. Based on this finding, we ordered Ridgelys conviction reversed, and we remanded Plumleys and Boschs cases for further proceedings to determine the extent, if any, to which their convictions were tainted by evidence derived from Ridgelys involuntary confession. Id. at 935.