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BROWN v. STATE

No. A-6439.

4 P.3d 961 (2000)

James D. BROWN, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

July 7, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald A. Offret, Aglietti & Offret, Anchorage, for Appellant.

Nancy R. Simel, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Bruce M. Botelho, Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellee.

Before COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and STEWART, Judges.

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

James D. Brown was convicted of second-degree murder and was sentenced to serve 55 years. This sentence considerably exceeds the 20- to 30-year benchmark range announced in Page v. State1 for first felony offenders convicted of second-degree murder. Twice before, we have assessed the propriety of Brown's sentence in light of this benchmark range. In our last decision2...

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