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KUSMIDER v. STATE

No. 7845.

688 P.2d 957 (1984)

Thomas KUSMIDER, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

September 21, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charlene A. Lichtman, Kay, Christie, Saville & Coffey, Anchorage, for appellant.

Richard W. Maki and David Mannheimer, Asst. Attys. Gen., Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before BRYNER, C.J., and COATS and SINGLETON, JJ.

OPINION

BRYNER, Chief Judge.

Thomas Kusmider was convicted, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, AS 11.41.110. He appeals, contending that Superior Court Judge Karl S. Johnstone erred in excluding evidence relating to the proximate cause of the victim's death. We affirm.

On November 15, 1982, Kusmider's girlfriend told Kusmider that an acquaintance, Arthur Villella, had sexually assaulted her. Kusmider went to Villella's home in Anchorage...

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