Notaro v. State

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• affirming a fifteen-year sentence for manslaughter based on worst offender classification, when, under former AS 11.15.040, maximum sentence provided for the offense was twenty years
• fifteen-year sentence for manslaughter upheld where facts made the crime “an extreme one” within this class, closely equivalent to second-degree murder
• defendant with unblemished past history shot wife when he learned she was leaving him; held, intentional shooting made him among the worst manslaughter offenders; fifteen-year sentence affirmed
• nature of the crime itself is sufficient to make defendant a worst offender and to justify a fifteen-year sentence for manslaughter, despite defendant’s relatively favorable background and lack of a prior criminal record

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