SMITH v. STATE

No. A-9681.

187 P.3d 511 (2008)

John P. SMITH, II, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

July 3, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shelley K. Chaffin, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Richard K. Payne, Assistant District Attorney, and Roman J. Kalytiak, District Attorney, Palmer, and Talis J. Colberg, Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

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


OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

John P. Smith II appeals the 20-year composite sentence that he received for a dozen criminal offenses (ten felonies and two misdemeanors), most of them committed during a two-month period in the summer of 2004. Smith's appeal raises two issues. First, does he have the right to appeal his composite sentence? And second, if he does, is the 20-year composite term of imprisonment excessive...

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