1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. P.2d
  4. 616 P.2d
  5. 616 P.2d 870 (1980)
 

RICHARDS v. STATE

No. 4620.

616 P.2d 870 (1980)

Timothy RICHARDS, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Backstrom, Asst. Public Defender, Fairbanks, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Randy M. Olsen, Asst. Dist. Atty., Harry L. Davis, Dist. Atty., Fairbanks, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, BOOCHEVER, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Timothy Richards, Sr., was convicted of manslaughter for the June, 1978 death of his six-week-old son. The conviction rested largely on a videotape made of Richards' eight-year-old son, Lonnie, shortly after the baby died. In this tape Lonnie reenacted what he claimed to have seen from his bedroom on the night at issue: his father beating the baby and throwing him across the room.

Richards asserts that it was error for the trial...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases