Hancock v. State

OPINION

SINGLETON, Judge.

James Hancock was convicted of four counts of sexual assault in the first degree. Former AS 11.41.410(a)(1). 1 Hancock’s victim was T.T., the daughter of a woman, L.B., with whom Hancock had lived for a number of years. The assaults occurred between December 1981 and May 1982. At the time of Hancock’s conviction, first-degree sexual assault was a class A felony. Former AS 11.41.410(b). The maximum penalty was twenty years’ imprisonment. Former AS 12.55.125(c)(1). Hancock received four maximum consecutive twenty-year sentences, constituting a composite sentence of…