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WYRICK v. STATE

No. 3677.

590 P.2d 46 (1979)

James D. WYRICK, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 2, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Fabe, Asst. Public Defender, Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Susan Delbert, Asst. Dist. Atty., Joseph D. Balfe, Dist. Atty., Anchorage, Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice, and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, Justices.

OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice.

James Wyrick appeals his burglary conviction because the state did not preserve and make available to him physical items from which fingerprints were taken. This failure, Wyrick argues, prevented him from testing the reliability of the fingerprints and violated the state's affirmative duty to disclose potentially favorable evidence to the defense.1

The police obtained twenty-two latent...

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