Legal Opinion
Porterfield v. State
Court of Appeals of Alaska
Decided May 2, 2003No. A-7899PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STEWART, Judge.
A jury convicted Todd Eric Porterfield of first-degree murder and first-degree arson 1 for starting a fire that killed Walter Roll. At the trial, the superior court admitted recordings of statements by Porterfield's wife, Michele S. Porterfield, to a third party and the third party's testimony describing Mrs. Port-erfleld's unrecorded statement about the fire and homicide; those statements implicated both Mr. and Mrs. Porterfield in the arson and homicide. Porterfield argues that the court abused its discretion when it admitted this evidence.
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