Nukapigak v. State

OPINION

COATS, Judge.

Clifford Nukapigak appeals from the sentences imposed following his conviction on three counts of first degree murder and one count each of kidnapping and sexual assault in the first degree. The offenses can be described briefly as follows: On August 17, 1980, considerable drinking occurred in the village of Point Lay. Among the drinkers were Clifford Nukapigak and his sixteen-year-old stepdaughter, Julia Tukrook. Nu-kapigak became upset at seeing Julia drunk and in the company of her boyfriend, Warren Harding Neakok, a young man for whom he had had a longstanding dislike…