Court Opinion

ID: 9537496
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:19:06.361111+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:56:43.664636
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BURKE, Justice,
with whom MATTHEWS, Justice, joins, dissenting.
Appellant was a willing participant in a planned robbery. During the course of the robbery, several people were held at gunpoint. Thereafter appellant and his cohorts led two police officers on a high speed chase down a public highway, during which shots were fired at the officers. Given appellant’s reckless disregard for the lives and safety of others, I am unable to say that Judge Kalamarides clearly erred in characterizing him as among the worst class of offenders or in imposing the sanction that he did. Accordingly, I would affirm the sentence. McClain v. State, 519 P.2d 811 (Alaska 1974).