Track Palin’s custody delayed for treatment

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The oldest son of Alaska’s former Gov. Sarah Palin has won a postponement on serving a year in custody in an assault case after his lawyer said a bed at a treatment hospital for veterans became available.

Track Palin was supposed to turn himself in to an Anchorage halfway house Wednesday after a judge recently decided new assault allegations disqualified him from a court program intended to rehabilitate veterans and said he would have to serve time instead.

Anchorage District Judge David Wallace ap- proved a motion by Palin’s attorney Friday seeking to allow him to begin serving his sentence Dec. 5.

Palin, 29, an Army veteran who served a year in Iraq, has been accused of three attacks, most recently in September after a female acquaintance said he hit her in the head.