Brown v. State

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MANNHEIMER, Judge.

James D. Brown was convicted of second-degree murder and was sentenced to serve 55 years. This sentence considerably exceeds the 20- to 80-year benchmark range announced in Page v. State 1 for first felony offenders convicted of second-degree murder. Twice before, we have assessed the propriety of Brown's sentence in light of this benchmark range. In our last decision 2 , we concluded that the superior court had not offered any convincing reason to depart from the benchmark range in Brown's case, and we therefore directed the superior court to reduce Brown's…