JOHNSON v. STATE

No. A-10243.

268 P.3d 362 (2012)

Johnny B. JOHNSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

January 20, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brooke V. Berens , Assistant Public Advocate, and Rachel Levitt , Public Advocate, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Ann B. Black , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and John J. Burns , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

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


OPINION

BOLGER, Judge.

Johnny B. Johnson was charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree assault, for cutting three individuals with a box cutter. At trial, Johnson claimed self-defense against all three victims. The court did not allow Johnson to introduce evidence of one victim's statement that he had attacked a neighbor the night before and did not allow Johnson to argue self-defense as to one of...

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