WOOLEY v. STATE

No. A-9335.

221 P.3d 12 (2009)

Edward A. WOOLEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

December 11, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colleen A. Libbey, Libbey Law Offices, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Diane L. Wendlandt, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Richard A. Svobodny, Acting Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

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


OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

In this appeal, we are asked to clarify what the legislature meant when they provided, in AS 11.46.130(a)(6), that a theft of property valued at between $50 and $500 would be enhanced by one degree — from third-degree theft to second-degree theft — if, within the preceding five years, the defendant has been convicted and sentenced for first-, second-, or third-degree theft "on two or more separate occasions...

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