Court Opinion

ID: 9611561
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:58:04.778408+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:15.129946
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BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice,
dissenting.
I think that the sentence of ten years with five suspended is clearly mistaken and excessive for this eighteen-year-old who committed a series of burglaries of unoccupied dwellings during the daytime on January 7. While Winslow’s prognosis is admittedly not the best, I think that if there is any chance for this youth to become a law abiding member of society, a lesser sentence would be required. A maximum sentence of five years imprisonment with three suspended would be much more appropriate. In that manner, he would be eligible for assignment to an institution without hardened criminals and with more emphasis on rehabilitation. He still would have an adequate time of supervision after being released, and two years incarceration would adequately serve the goals of deterrence and reaffirmation of societal norms.1

. State v. Chaney, 477 P.2d 441, 444 (Alaska 1970), states these, as well as rehabilitation and isolation of the offender from the community, are the goals of sentencing.