State introduces first witnesses in Fairbanks 4 hearing

The state has begun calling witnesses in the Fairbanks Four evidentiary hearing.
As the proceeding stretches into its 4th week, the focus has shifted from witnesses summoned by attorneys representing exoneration petitioners George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin Roberts and Eugene Vent to those offered by state lawyers trying to uphold the men’s convictions for the 1997 murder of John Hartman.
Monday, Fairbanks resident Stephen Paskvan testified that he gave Eugene’s Vent’s mother,