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LEGGETT v. STATE

No. A-11136.

320 P.3d 311 (2014)

Valerie LEGGETT, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

March 7, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Olena Kalytiak Davis , Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Mary Gilson , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Michael C. Geraghty , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Before: MANNHEIMER, Chief Judge, and ALLARD, Judge, and HANLEY, District Court Judge.

OPINION

Judge HANLEY.

A jury convicted Valerie Leggett of driving under the influence, and she appeals. Leggett argues the trial court erred in finding her admission of driving was sufficiently corroborated to satisfy the corpus delicti rule. A central issue in this appeal is whether a trial judge can consider inadmissible evidence in determining whether a defendant's confession is sufficiently corroborated to satisfy Alaska's corpus delicti rule...

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