Legal Opinion
Ryan v. State
Court of Appeals of Alaska
Decided July 14, 1995No. A-5181, A-5251PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MANNHEIMER, Judge.
John F. Ryan and Jerome Trigg, III, appeal their convictions for second-degree sexual assault, AS 11.41.420(a). The victim of the assault, M.K., committed suicide a few hours before she was scheduled to testify at grand jury. The State nevertheless secured indictments against Ryan and Trigg, in large measure through the testimony of Nome Police Officer Kevin Michels. Officer Michels described the accounts of the assault that M.K. had given him in two separate interviews.
Before trial, Ryan and Trigg challenged the admissibility of this hearsay evidence; they argued…
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