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JEFFRIES v. STATE

No. A-8167.

90 P.3d 185 (2004)

Michael V. JEFFRIES, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

May 14, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Quinlan Steiner, Assistant Public Defender, and Barbara K. Brink, Public Defender, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Kenneth M. Rosenstein, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Gregg D. Renkes, Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

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

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

This appeal requires us to examine the distinction between two degrees of criminal homicide: manslaughter as defined in AS 11.41.120(a)(1), which requires proof of the defendant's recklessness; and second-degree murder as defined in AS 11.41.110(a)(2), which requires proof of a recklessness so heightened as to constitute "an extreme indifference to the value of human life".

In prior cases, we have upheld second-degree...

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