Zeciri v. State

OPINION

SINGLETON, Judge.

Abidin Zeciri was convicted, following a jury trial, of the first-degree murder of his wife, Safije Zeciri. AS 11.41.100(a)(1). Ze-ciri’s primary defense at trial was that his wife had killed herself and that the state’s witnesses, Rasim and Katherine Kadriu, who originally reported the death as a suicide, altered their stories because the victim’s family, particularly her brother, Me-fail Aliu, threatened anyone who helped Zeciri at trial.

Zeciri did not testify. The defense presented this theory to the jury through cross-examination of the state’s witnesses. Rasim and…