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HESS v. STATE

Court of Appeals No. A-11425.

382 P.3d 1183 (2016)

Christopher S. HESS, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

September 2, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan S. Bair , Assistant Public Advocate, Appeals and Statewide Defense Section, and Richard Allen , Public Advocate, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Terisia K. Chleborad , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Criminal Appeals, Anchorage, and Craig W. Richards , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Before: Mannheimer, Chief Judge, Allard, Judge, and Suddock, Superior Court Judge.

OPINION

A jury convicted Christopher S. Hess of second-and third-degree assault for strangling his mother, Patricia Hess. On appeal, he challenges aspects of the prosecutor's final argument. We agree that some of the prosecutor's statements were inflammatory and thus improper. But because Hess did not object to these remarks...

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