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STORES v. STATE

No. 3595.

625 P.2d 820 (1980)

Edward Leslie STORES, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 19, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christine Schleuss, Asst. Public Defender, John M. Murtagh, Asst. Public Defender, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

John Scukanec, Asst. Dist. Atty., Joseph D. Balfe, Dist. Atty., Anchorage, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice.

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...

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