Legal Opinion
Allen v. State
Court of Appeals of Alaska
Decided September 12, 1997No. A-5922PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MANNHEIMER, Judge.
Albert L. Allen was convicted of second-degree murder, AS 11.41.110(a), stemming from an altercation with another man. At his trial, Allen claimed that he acted in self-defense — that the ostensible victim was in fact the first aggressor. The State countered with evidence that Allen himself had acted violently on past occasions (thus suggesting that Allen had been the first aggressor).
Allen’s attorney objected to the State’s evidence of Allen’s past violent acts. The defense attorney first argued that the rules of evidence do not allow the State to introduce evidence…
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