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580 P.2d 304

Post v. State

Alaska Supreme Court

Decided June 9, 1978

Alaska Supreme Court · decided 1978-06-09

Relies on Morrell v. State

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Decided 1978-06-09

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Houston v. State (1979), Keith v. State (1980)

25 state decisions

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BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice,

¶1concurring.

¶2Although the facts of this case are quite similar to those of Morrell v. State, 575 P.2d 1200 (Alaska 1978), in which I dissented in part, I am in agreement with the disposition of the sentence appeal in Post’s case. In Morrell, I dissented because of my belief that a sentence for forcible rape convictions imposed consecutively to a life sentence for kidnapping was excessive. Morrell had no prior convictions of any kind, a favorable military service record with honorable termination, stable and competent regular employment and a favorable psychiatric report lacking any description of mental or emotional problems, all of which are in direct *310contrast with the record pertaining to Post. In view of Post’s background and reports pertaining to his highly dangerous potentialities, I agree that the judge in imposing the consecutive sentences in this case was not clearly mistaken.

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