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PORTERFIELD v. STATE

No. A-9033.

145 P.3d 613 (2006)

Todd E. PORTERFIELD, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

October 13, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Hackett, Fairbanks, for the Appellant.

Kenneth M. Rosenstein, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and David W. Márquez, Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

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

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Todd E. Porterfield was convicted of first-degree murder and first-degree arson for intentionally starting a fire for the purpose of killing another person.1 One important aspect of the State's case against Porterfield was evidence of various statements that Porterfield's wife, Michele, made about the arson/homicide to a woman named Diana Knight. Knight was a friend of the Porterfields', and...

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