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TAYLOR v. STATE

No. A-6872.

977 P.2d 123 (1999)

Jerry Wayne TAYLOR, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

March 19, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Cohn, Anchorage, for Appellant.

Douglas H. Kossler, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Bruce M. Botelho, Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellee.

Before COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and STEWART, Judges.

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Under Alaska Criminal Rule 38(a), a criminal defendant has a right to be present "at every stage of the trial". When a witness in a criminal trial asserts a privilege not to testify, may the trial judge allow the witness to explain the basis of the privilege in an ex parte hearing? Or does Criminal Rule 38(a) require the defendant's presence at such a hearing and guarantee the defendant's right to cross-examine the...

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