In Re Estate of Blodgett

OPINION

CARPENETLI Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

After being convicted of the criminally negligent homicide of his father, Robert Blodgett attempted to obtain the benefits devised to him under his father's will. Pursuant to Alaska's "slayer statute," 1 the superior court found that Blodgett was not entitled to inherit under the will as a result of his conviction, and that no manifest injustice resulted from this forfeiture. Blodgett attacks this decision on statutory and constitutional grounds. Because we agree with the superi- or court that Blodgett failed to prove that excluding him from the…