State won’t seek to try man a third time in Unalaska cliff crash deaths case

Michelle Theriault Boots

CRIME & COURTS

Anchorage Daily News

The state of Alaska will not seek to try an Unalaska man on criminally negligent homicide charges for the third time in the deaths of two Unalaska teenagers, prosecutor John Skidmore said Thursday.

A trial for Dustin Ruckman, 25, ended in March with an Anchorage Superior Court judge declaring a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

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