State v. Ranstead

BOLGER, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

In Roman v. State , we recognized that conditions of probation and parole "must be reasonably related to the rehabilitation of the offender and the protection of the public and must not be unduly restrictive of liberty." 1 The court of appeals recently read Roman as requiring that a sentencing court affirmatively review all probation conditions proposed in the presentence report, even if the defendant has not objected to those conditions. 2 It applied that requirement to Dean Ranstead's sentence appeal and remanded to the superior court. The State of Alaska…