CREER v. STATE

No. 4180.

600 P.2d 1095 (1979)

Wallace CREER, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

October 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank D. Rothschild, Asst. Public Defender, Juneau, Brian C. Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

James Hanley, Asst. Dist. Atty., Larry R. Weeks, Dist. Atty., Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, BOOCHEVER, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Wallace Creer and Greg Love argued on the streets of downtown Juneau. Creer pulled a gun and shot Love in his legs. Wallace Creer pled nolo contendere to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, AS 11.15.220. He was sentenced to five years in prison and appeals the sentence as excessive.

Creer's argument is a generalized claim that the judge made an overly-harsh assessment of his personality and of the assault itself, and...

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