Case Name: Billy McKINNEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee
Court: Alaska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Alaska
Decision Date: 1977-11-04
Citations: 570 P.2d 733
Docket Number: No. 2758
Parties: Billy McKINNEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.
Judges: Before BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice, RA-BINOWITZ, CONNOR and BURKE, Justices, and DIMOND, Justice Pro Tern.
Reporter: Pacific Reporter 2d
Volume: 570
Pages: 733–734

Head Matter:
Billy McKINNEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.
No. 2758.
Supreme Court of Alaska.
Nov. 4, 1977.
Walter L. Carpeneti, Asst. Public Defender, Juneau, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.
Larry Weeks, Dist. Atty. and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.
Before BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice, RA-BINOWITZ, CONNOR and BURKE, Justices, and DIMOND, Justice Pro Tern.

Opinion:
OPINION ON REHEARING
BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice.
The petition for rehearing is granted, and the case is remanded for resentencing.
The state in its memorandum concedes that:
Mr. McKinney may have been "prejudiced" by his failure to obtain a continuance before sentencing in the sense that there was possible favorable testimony that could have been offered had he obtained a continuance.
Counsel for defendant indicated that he would have objected to proceeding with sentencing since he had had no time to prepare, having received the pre-sentence report only that day. He stated that he agreed to go forward only because of Mr. McKinney's desire to complete the matter. We believe that there was sufficient showing of prejudice flowing from the superior court's failure to grant a continuance sua sponte of the sentencing proceedings, and we remand for the sole purpose of resen-tencing.
We do not find that McKinney's due process rights were violated by the superior court's failure to grant such a continuance sua sponte, and order the limited remand under this court's general supervisory authority over Alaska's trial courts in criminal matters.
PETITION GRANTED.
. Admittedly, the state further argues that attached affidavits may weaken the claim by making some of the testimony offered by defendant ambiguous.