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Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat
Don't leave me hanging after all of that. What was the sentence?
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Alaska does not have a straight ‘DUI homicide’ statute. Instead, DUI homicides are a sub-section between manslaughter and murder 2. Sentences ranged from 8-15 years depending on a variety of factors, at least for first offenses. Manslaughter had a sentence of 5-20 years and murder 2 was 10-99 years. The State demanded a plea to murder 2* and the State wanted 18 years. We were arguing for 10 years, the minimum allowed under the murder 2 statute. The judge gave my guy 11 years with some time suspended.
* there were other people in the car and they were injured, although not severely. Each person, though, was a felony assault charge that would require a consecutive sentence. The State would not agree to manslaughter but they would dismiss all of the other charges so in one sense, it was kind of a wash.