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- Title: Gregory Zartman v. State Alaska
- Author : Court Of Appeals Of Alaska
- Release Date : January 12, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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SINGLETON, Judge. OPINION Gregory Zartman was convicted of sale of marijuana. Former AS 17.12.010. He appeals arguing that the trial court erred in failing to excuse for cause eleven jurors who had sat on a similar drug prosecution case the preceding week and heard similar witnesses. Alternatively, he contends the trial court should have allowed him additional peremptory challenges to enable him to ensure that those jurors would not sit upon his case. We have determined that upon the peculiar facts of this case, the trial court should have sustained challenges for cause against the jurors involved. We therefore reverse and remand for a new trial. At approximately the same time, Gregory Zartman and Shawn Foster were separately indicted for sale of marijuana to Robert Hernandez, a San Francisco police officer, who, with the consent of his employer, was working as an undercover investigator in Ketchikan in the fall of 1982. Foster and Zartman were separately tried. Robert Blasco served as defense counsel for both. Foster was tried first. The evidence at Foster's trial consisted primarily of the testimony of police officers Robert Hernandez, Ronald Kern and John Mclntosh. The same witnesses were scheduled to, and did, testify against Zartman the following week.