VASKA v. STATE

No. S-11171.

135 P.3d 1011 (2006)

Stanley VASKA, Petitioner, v. STATE of Alaska, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 15, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margi Mock, Assistant Public Defender, and Barbara K. Brink, Public Defender, Anchorage, for Petitioner.

Kenneth M. Rosenstein, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Gregg D. Renkes, Attorney General, Juneau, for Respondent.

Before: BRYNER, Chief Justice, MATTHEWS, EASTAUGH, FABE, and CARPENETI, Justices.


OPINION

BRYNER, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A jury found Stanley Vaska guilty of sexually abusing T.E., a minor. The evidence identifying Vaska as the young child's abuser included testimony of T.E.'s mother describing statements T.E. had made after the alleged abuse. Because T.E. said at trial that she had no memory of the period in her childhood when the abuse occurred, the trial court admitted her mother's testimony under

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