Beasley v. State

This case requires us to construe what the legislature intended when they added subsection (1) to AS 12.55.125(k) in 1999. This statute reads:(k) A first felony offender convicted of an offense for which a presumptive term of imprisonment is not specified under this section(1) may be sentenced to a term of unsuspended imprisonment that exceeds the presumptive term for a second or third felony offender convicted of the same crime if the offender is convicted of criminally negligent homicide and the victim is a child under the age of 16;(2) except as provided in (1) of this subsection, may not…