Legal Opinion
State v. Agoney
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided March 28, 1980No. 4494PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., CONNOR, BOOCHEVER and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice. MATTHEWS, Justice.
This petition for review concerns the admissibility of statements under the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule. Respondent Thomas Agoney, Jr., is charged with intentional homicide for the fatal stabbing of his brother-in-law. The trial judge admitted into evidence a statement made by Agoney to investigating officers at the scene of the crime. The state claims error.
The trial ended in a mistrial. We grant this petition for review before a second trial begins. The…
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