Wells v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the legislature did not intend application of mandatory consecutive sentencing to turn on \such fortuitous and haphazard considerations\ as whether a defendant had the foresight to arrange consolidated sentencing proceedings
• holding that the legislature did not intend application of mandatory consecutive sentencing to turn on “such fortuitous and haphazard considerations” as whether a defendant had the foresight to arrange consolidated sentencing proceedings
• “It is well established that, in accordance with the rule of lenity, ambiguities in penal statutes must be resolved in favor of the accused.”
• “It is well established that, in accordance with the rule of lenity, ambiguities in penal statutes must be resolved in favor of the accused.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Hazelwood
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1997-10-03· cited 30×
• Medina v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2018-03-02· cited 30×
• State v. Otness
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1999-08-13· cited 14×
• Joseph v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1986-01-31· cited 14×
• Jennings v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1986-02-14· cited 11×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-08-26· cited 10×
• Hampel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1996-02-09· cited 9×
• Wurthmann v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2001-06-01· cited 8×
• State v. Stafford
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2006-02-03· cited 8×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2005-04-15· cited 6×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2016-08-19· cited 6×
• Nathanial L. Kangas v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2020-03-27· cited 5×
• Jason D. Ray v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2019-10-17· cited 1×
• Christopher Brandon Baines v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2023-07-28

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Andrews
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-09-06· cited 142×
• State v. Carlson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-02-16· cited 63×
• State v. Rastopsoff
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-03-04· cited 51×
• Griffith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-01-13· cited 18×
• Sawyer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-05-20· cited 17×