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STATE v. CLIFTON

No. A-10941.

315 P.3d 694 (2013)

STATE of Alaska, Petitioner, v. Karan V. CLIFTON, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

December 27, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy W. Terrell , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and John J. Burns , Attorney General (opening brief), and Michael C. Geraghty , Attorney General (reply brief), Juneau, for the Petitioner.

Josie Garton , Assistant Public Defender, and Quinlan Steiner , Public Defender, Anchorage, for the Respondent.

Before: MANNHEIMER, Chief Judge, BOLGER, Supreme Court Justice, and COATS, Senior Judge.

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

In 1982, the Alaska legislature extensively revised the law that defines how a person's mental disease or defect affects their responsibility for criminal conduct.1 As part of that revision, the legislature created a new type of verdict in criminal cases: the verdict of "guilty but mentally ill".

The present case involves several potential constitutional problems relating to the "guilty...

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