Legal Opinion
Stores v. State
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided December 19, 1980No. 3595PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CONNOR, Justice.
This appeal requires us to decide whether it was proper to admit into evidence the videotaped deposition of a key prosecution witness who was out of the state at the time of trial.
In March, 1977, Edward Stores was charged with one count of rape.1 The state’s case consisted primarily of the testimony of three witnesses. The prosecutrix, a high school student, testified that the defendant, a stranger, approached her in the school parking lot and asked for a lift to his home because he had been injured in a fight. He claimed that his lip had been split. When they arrived…
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