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GEST v. STATE

No. 4834.

619 P.2d 724 (1980)

Mark J. GEST, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 21, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeff Jefferson, Asst. Public Defender, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Michael N. White, Asst. Dist. Atty., Larry R. Weeks, Dist. Atty., Anchorage, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

At the age of eighteen, Mark Gest deliberately killed a man. He was convicted of first degree murder1 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He has appealed the sentence, and we affirm.

Gest had a substantial criminal record as a juvenile and spent several years in a variety of juvenile facilities in Washington. Extensive institutional efforts to reform his behavior proved futile, and finally Gest...

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