Mossberg v. State

OPINION

BRYNER, Chief Judge.

Following a jury trial, Clifford W. Moss-berg was convicted, in March 1978, of ar son in the first degree. Former AS 11.20.-010. Superior Court Judge Gerald J. Van Hoomissen sentenced Mossberg to a term of fifteen years’ imprisonment. Mossberg appealed his conviction and sentence. In Mossberg v. State, 624 P.2d 796 (Alaska 1981), the Alaska Supreme Court affirmed his conviction but remanded the case to the superior court to determine whether Moss-berg had been accorded his right of allocution. The supreme court held in abeyance Mossberg’s claim that his sentence was…