Hurd v. State

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

This case presents two significant issues. The first issue concerns the double jeopardy doctrine announced by our supreme court in Whitton v. State, 479 P.2d 302 (Alaska 1970). In Whitton, the supreme court held that even though a jury has found a defendant guilty of violating two separate criminal statutes, the sentencing court should impose only one conviction and sentence if the two statutory offenses are so closely related that there are no significant differences between them as to the conduct proscribed and the societal values protected. 1

The present appeal…