26 chapters · 317 sections in this title.
AS 12.20.020 When acquittal or dismissal is not a bar.
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If the defendant is acquitted on the ground of a variance between the charge and the proof, or the charge is dismissed upon an objection to its form or substance, or discharged for want of prosecution, without a judgment of acquittal or in bar of another prosecution, it is not an…
AS 12.20.030 When acquittal is a bar.
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When the defendant is acquitted on the merits, the defendant is acquitted of the same crime, notwithstanding any defect in form or substance in the charge, information, or complaint on which the trial was had.
AS 12.20.040 When conviction or acquittal is a bar to other offenses.
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When the defendant is convicted or acquitted of a crime consisting of different degrees, the conviction or acquittal is a bar to another prosecution for the crime charged in the former or for any inferior degree of that crime, or for an attempt to commit that crime, or for an off…
AS 12.20.050 Dismissal as bar.
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(a) It is a bar to another prosecution for the same crime if the crime is a misdemeanor, but it is not a bar if the crime charged is a felony when a person is (1) held to answer to the grand jury and the court dismisses the charge before the case is presented to the grand jury up…