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STATE v. STAFFORD

Nos. A-8872, A-8888.

129 P.3d 927 (2006)

STATE of Alaska, Petitioner, v. Scott R. STAFFORD, and Jeffrey L. Castrey, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

February 3, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terisia K. Chleborad, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Gregg D. Renkes, Attorney General, and Scott J. Nordstrand, Acting Attorney General, Juneau, for the Petitioner.

Margi A. Mock, Assistant Public Defender, and Barbara K. Brink, Public Defender, Anchorage, for Respondent Stafford, and William R. Satterberg Jr., Fairbanks, for Respondent Castrey.

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

OPINION

STEWART, Judge.

In 2001, the Alaska legislature toughened the penalties for driving while under the influence by requiring sentencing courts to count all a defendant's prior drunk driving convictions—no matter how old — in determining the defendant's mandatory minimum sentence. Before that time, the law had counted only convictions within the previous ten years. But in 2004, the legislature...

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