Carter v. State

OPINION

Judge MANNHEIMER.

Steven Carter was convicted of third-degree theft for stealing $218 from a wallet during an Easter service at the Tudor Rescue Mission in Anchorage. 1 No one personally witnessed Carter take the wallet, but the theft was recorded by the Reseue Mission's video security system. Several people who viewed this video later testified at Carter's trial. The video itself, however, was not available at trial because the portion of the hard drive containing the video was automatically recorded over by the security system after a number of weeks.

The officer who was assigned to…