NUKAPIGAK v. STATE

No. 5820.

663 P.2d 943 (1983)

Clifford NUKAPIGAK, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 13, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary E. Greene, Asst. Public Defender, Fairbanks, Dana Fabe, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Harry L. Davis, Dist. Atty., Bill D. Murphree, Asst. Dist. Atty., Fairbanks, Wilson L. Condon, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before BURKE, C.J., RABINOWITZ, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ., and MOORE, Judge.


OPINION

BURKE, Chief Justice.

On August 17, 1980, Clifford Nukagpigak shot and killed his teen-aged stepdaughter and her boyfriend. He forced a second woman into his cabin where he raped her, beat her with a hammer, and strangled her. He was convicted on three counts of murder in the first degree, one count of kidnapping, and one count of sexual assault in the first degree.

Superior Court Judge James R. Blair sentenced Nukapigak to three consecutive...

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