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HELMER v. STATE

No. 4383.

616 P.2d 884 (1980)

James W. HELMER, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

David Mannheimer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

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

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

This is a sentence appeal. In the early morning hours of September 4, 1977, James Helmer raped and repeatedly struck on the head with a fireplace poker a fourteen-year-old girl. The victim, a younger sister of a girl Helmer had been dating, was alone in her parents' home at the time. The girl lost her right eye as a result of the attack.

After Helmer was found unamenable to treatment as a juvenile, jurisdiction...

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