Bynum v. State

OPINION

COATS, Judge.

Denny Bynum was convicted, based upon his plea of no contest, of the offense of sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree, AS 11.41.434(a)(2)(B). Sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree is an unclassified felony with a maximum sentence of thirty years and a presumptive sentence for a first felony offender of eight years. AS 12.55.125(i). Bynum was a first felony offender. At sentencing he attempted to establish the existence of the mitigating factor that he “committed the offense under some degree of duress, coercion, threat, or compulsion insufficient to constitute…