Court Opinion

ID: 9578691
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:47:32.619827+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:15.200995
License: Public Domain

SCHULZ, Superior Court Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the result reached as to all issues in this appeal, however, I wish to state separately my conclusion that Holden’s equal protection and due process claims are devoid of merit.
A.S. 11.15.160 provides:
“Assault with Intent to Kill or Commit Rape or Robbery. A person who assaults another with intent to kill, or to commit rape or robbery upon the person assaulted, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than 15 years nor less than one year.”
It may be, as the majority states, that an attempt to commit rape may occur without an assault, but Holden’s conduct in pulling a gun on Jane clearly brings within the scope of A.S. 11.15.160. He has no claim at all that he should have been charged under A.S. 11.05.020.
This case is not just “not an appropriate one for resolution of” the equal protection claim. The claim is frivolous, and I believe we should say so.