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Justine Paul spent seven years in jail

waiting to be tried on a murder charge built on bad evidence.

Photograph: Marc Lester

Anchorage Daily News

Bad Evidence Got Him Indicted for Murder.

He Waited 7 Years to Walk Free.

Justine Paul was accused of killing his girlfriend, Eunice Whitman.

In Alaska’s slow-motion criminal justice system,

he was kept behind bars even as the evidence against him fell apart.

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

December 21, 2025, 5:00 am

ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/
alaska-murder-pretrial-delays-justine-paul

Native Americans > Alaska > Alaskans / Alaska natives

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Alaska

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Alaska_Natives

https://www.propublica.org/article/
alaska-murder-pretrial-delays-justine-paul - December 21, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/13/
1122705880/mary-peltola-first-alaska-native-elected-to-congress-
will-be-sworn-in-today
- NPR podcast with transcript

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/05/
1120805820/mary-peltola-the-first-alaska-native-
heading-to-congress-journeys-home-to-the-ri
- NPR podcast with transcript

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/
802218309/climate-change-complicates-counting-some-alaska-native-villages-for-census

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/30/
610384132/the-conflicting-educations-of-sam-schimmel

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/21/
554598592/after-87-years-at-the-smithsonian-
bones-of-alaska-natives-returned-and-reburied

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/24/
503036303/ivory-ban-hurts-native-alaskans-who-legally-carve-walrus-tusks

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