Smith v. State

OPINION

BRYNER, Chief Judge.

Arthur Lee Smith, Jr., appeals as excessive a sentence of two concurrent fifteen-year terms of imprisonment imposed by Superior Court Judge Victor Carlson after Smith’s conviction of two counts of rape. 1

The two offenses for which Smith was sentenced occurred about nine months apart and were strikingly similar in nature. On both occasions Smith abducted a young woman in the early hours of the morning as she left Chilkoot Charlie’s, an Anchorage bar. Smith’s two victims, K.M. and R.J., were forced to accompany him to a remote area of Anchorage, where Smith committed…