SHEPARD v. STATE

No. 1283.

847 P.2d 75 (1993)

Robert SHEPARD, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

February 19, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blair McCune, Asst. Public Defender, and John B. Salemi, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Kenneth M. Rosenstein, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Sp. Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Charles E. Cole, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before BRYNER, C.J., and COATS, J., and ANDREWS, Superior Court Judge.


BRYNER, Chief Judge.

Robert Shepard was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Following a jury trial presided over by Superior Court Judge Roy H. Madsen, Shepard was acquitted altogether on one count and was convicted of the lesser-included offense of manslaughter on the other. Shepard appeals, contending that the trial court erred in barring an expert witness from testifying in his defense. We reverse.1

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