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Wharton v. State

Citations

  • 590 P.2d 427
  • 1979 Alas. LEXIS 479

How courts have described this case

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  • overruling Bear v. State, 439 P.2d 432 (Alaska 1968) and interpreting Article IV, Section 2 as granting the supreme court inherent authority to review criminal sentences
  • youthful first offender who possessed under two-thirds of a gram should receive a suspended imposition of sentence

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Judges: Boochever, Chief Justice, and Rabinowitz, Connor, Burke and Matthews, Justices

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