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LaLONDE v. STATE

No. 4543.

614 P.2d 808 (1980)

Shirley LaLONDE a/k/a Monique Fontaine, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

July 25, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Backstrom, Deputy Public Defender, Fairbanks, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Steven J. Call, Asst. Dist. Atty., Harry L. Davis, Dist. Atty., Fairbanks, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

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

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

In this appeal Shirley LaLonde seeks reversal of her jury conviction for second degree murder. She also appeals from the superior court's sentence of twenty years on the ground that it is excessive.

LaLonde shot her ex-lover, Dennis Yenter, in the back with a.38 caliber handgun at the Gold Rush Saloon in Fairbanks. The shooting, which LaLonde claimed was accidental, was witnessed by several people in the saloon. Yenter was pronounced...

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