HEATH v. STATE

No. A-4123.

849 P.2d 786 (1993)

Lawrence HEATH, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

April 9, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margi Mock, Asst. Public Defender, and John B. Salemi, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Shelley K. Chaffin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Charles E. Cole, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

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


OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Lawrence Heath was convicted of two counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor, AS 11.41.436(a)(1), following a jury trial in the Anchorage superior court. Heath appeals his convictions, arguing that the trial judge should have allowed him to introduce evidence that his victim was a virgin. We affirm.

During the summer of 1990, 15-year-old J.A. lived with her foster mother and worked at the Tastee Freeze on Northern...

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