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AHVAKANA v. STATE

Court of Appeals No. A-12713.

475 P.3d 1118 (2020)

Forrest J. AHVAKANA, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

September 25, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Jude Pate (opening brief), and Laurence Blakely (reply brief), Assistant Public Defenders, and Quinlan Steiner , Public Defender, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

Diane L. Wendlandt , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Criminal Appeals, Anchorage, and Jahna Lindemuth , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Judge SUDDOCK, concurring in part, and dissenting in part.

OPINION

Forrest J. Ahvakana was convicted, following a jury trial, of first-degree assault and was sentenced, pursuant to Alaska's three-strikes law, to a mandatory term of 99 years without parole. Ahvakana later filed an application for post-conviction relief, asserting that his attorney's ineffective assistance of counsel unfairly deprived him of a favorable plea bargain.1 Relying on our...

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