Gray v. State

OPINION

BOLGER, Judge.

Alaska Statute 47.12.030(a) provides that when a sixteen-year-old minor commits certain serious felonies, including murder, the minor "shall be charged, held, released on bail, prosecuted, sentenced, and incarcerated in the same manner as an adult." Kira Gray argues that her sentence for first-degree murder violates the constitutional protections against eruel and unusual punishment and the constitutional guarantees of equal protection because she was a minor at the time of her offense. But we conclude that this combination of the automatic waiver statute and the adult…