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LESTENKOF v. STATE

No. A-10007.

229 P.3d 182 (2010)

Gregory T. LESTENKOF, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

April 23, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian T. Duffy, Assistant Public Advocate, and Rachel Levitt, Public Advocate, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Tamara de Lucia, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Richard A. Svobodny, Acting Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

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

OPINION

BOLGER, Judge.

This case involves the competing values protected by the constitutional guarantee that a criminal defendant must have an "impartial jury."1 The jury venire must include a "fair cross section" of the community in which the alleged offense occurred.2 In addition, the individual jurors may not be biased by their relationships to the parties or their knowledge of the dispute...

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