Court Opinion

ID: 9557830
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 16:58:30.129068+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:33.632636
License: Public Domain

BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice,
concurring.
Although 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.