Stonefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
April 1983
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Waters v. State · Donlun v. State · Speas v. State · Pascoe v. State · Darling v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]e do not believe that the record justifies Stonefield receiving a sentence in excess of a total of five years. A sentence “ought not to exceed ten years except in unusual cases and normally should not exceed five years.” Stonefield’s current offenses basically involved an attempt to obtain drugs for his own use without any intent to sell. This would place him within the third category of offenses under the criteria set forth in Waters v. State, 483 P.2d 199, 201 (Alaska 1971).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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