WARD v. STATE, DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Nos. S-14042, S-14058.

288 P.3d 94 (2012)

James D. WARD, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, Appellee. State of Alaska, Department of Public Safety, Appellant, v. Michael E. BOLES, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 16, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis James Menendez , Law Office of Louis J. Menendez, Juneau, and Kirsten Swanson and Marcia E. Holland , Law Office of Kirsten Swanson, Juneau, for Appellant Ward and Appellee Boles.

John J. Novak , Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, and John J. Burns , Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellant and Appellee State of Alaska, Department of Public Safety.

Before FABE, WINFREE, and STOWERS, Justices, and EASTAUGH, Senior Justice.


OPINION

EASTAUGH, Senior Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

The Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act (ASORA) requires a person "convicted of ... two or more sex offenses" to register for life as a sex offender.1 The question raised in these two consolidated appeals is whether this provision applies to a person convicted in a single proceeding of two (or more) sex offenses. James Ward was convicted of two sex offenses in...

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