Thompson v. State

OPINION

COATS, Judge.

Carl Thompson was convicted, following a jury trial, of one count of first-degree murder, AS 11.41.100, an unclassified felony, and of one count of tampering with physical evidence, AS 11.56.610, a class C felony. Judge Jay Hodges sentenced Thompson to ninety-nine years on the first-degree murder conviction and to a consecutive five years on the tampering with physical evidence conviction. Thompson appeals his conviction and sentence. We affirm Thompson’s conviction, but reverse his sentence.

On September 10, 1986, two moose hunters found the body of a dead woman floating…