Alexander v. State

OPINION

RABINO WITZ, Justice.

This criminal and sentence appeal follows Michael L. Alexander’s conviction for statutory rape, in violation of AS 11.15.120(2),1 and his sentence of seven and one-half years imprisonment. The criminal appeal raises issues of pre-indictment delay, impeachment by prior conviction, an eviden-tiary ruling, prosecutorial misconduct, and failure to give a cautionary instruction on oral admissions. We find that we cannot determine whether the period of pre-indictment requires a reversal of the conviction because of the handling of the evidentiary hearings. As a result,…