Attorneys for Steven Downs maintain the court violated the Fourth Amendment's privacy provisions and collected evidence without a warrant.
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Steven H. Downs has no money and on Tuesday a judge assigned his case, which is with the Alaska Court of Appeals, to the Public Defender Agency.
Steven H. Downs, 48, will be about 70 years old when he is eligible for discretionary parole.
Steven H. Downs will need to be present for his sentencing next month in Fairbanks Superior Court.
Fairbanksans gathered for a memorial in honor of Sophie Sergie and other victims of unsolved homicides on Tuesday.
Weapons experts testified for both the defense and the prosecution in a teleconferenced hearing.
Troopers caught a break in the case in 2018 after DNA collected from Sergie’s body was matched to that of Downs’ aunt, who had submitted her own DNA to a genealogical database.
FAIRBANKS — The attorney for an Auburn, Maine, man charged in the 1993 sexual assault and death of a young woman at a University of Alaska Fai…
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