ADAMS v. STATE

Court of Appeals No. A-11450. No. 2639.

440 P.3d 337 (2019)

Jackie Russell ADAMS, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

March 1, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjorie Mock , under contract with the Public Defender Agency, and Quinlan Steiner , Public Defender, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Tamara E. deLucia , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Criminal Appeals, Anchorage, and Craig W. Richards (initial brief) and Jahna Lindemuth (supplemental brief), Attorneys General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

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


OPINION

Jackie Russell Adams appeals his conviction for second-degree murder.1 Among other things, Adams asserts that he is entitled to a new trial because, during the State's closing argument, the prosecutor openly suggested that if the jurors returned an erroneous verdict, this verdict would...

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