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Anchorage rebuilds prosecutor’s office after hundreds of criminal case dismissals
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, JUL 10 – Anchorage's municipal prosecutor office now has 12 frontline prosecutors, reducing vacancy from over 40% to 7% and ending dismissal of cases for missing speedy-trial deadlines.
The city dropped more than 250 domestic violence assault cases and more than 270 drunken driving cases between May 1 and Oct. 2 last year. Now it says it has hired a full staff of 12 “frontline” prosecutors who will take cases to trial.