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SAWYER v. STATE

No. A-10160.

244 P.3d 1130 (2010)

Derek D. SAWYER, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

January 7, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christine S. Schleuss , Law Office of Christine Schleuss, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Tamara E. de Lucia , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Daniel S. Sullivan , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

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

OPINION

BOLGER, Judge.

Derek D. Sawyer was convicted of murder for killing his wife, Gretchen Sawyer. Sawyer's defense at trial was that Gretchen either committed suicide, or that their twentynine-month-old son, Trace, shot her accidentally.

Sawyer raises numerous claims of error. We conclude that Superior Court Judge John Suddock did not abuse his discretion when he declined to order the State to disclose investigations of other young children...

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