Sanders v. Alaska
Alaska Court of Appeals
No. A-10943, 2013 Alas. App. LEXIS 119 (2013)
- Written by Sean Carroll, JD
Facts
Ryan Sanders (defendant) was charged with two counts of murder. Sanders asserted self-defense, claiming that one of the victims, Travis Moore, attacked him first. At trial, Sanders sought to introduce out-of-court statements that Carmela Bacod had made to police. Bacod told police that Ashlee Richards, the other victim, had told Bacod that Richards and Moore believed that Sanders had stolen money from them. According to Bacod, Richards told Bacod that Richards and Moore planned to go to Sanders’s home to confront him. Sanders sought to introduce these statements under Alaska Rule of Evidence 803(3) to show that the victims came to his home seeking a confrontation, which resulted in self-defense killings. Sanders was convicted, and he appealed.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning ()
Concurrence (Mannheimer, J.)
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