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- Title: Ronald Jennings v. State Alaska
- Author : Court Of Appeals Of Alaska
- Release Date : January 14, 1986
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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Ronald Jennings was convicted, based upon his plea of no contest, of the offense of promoting contraband in the first degree, AS 11.56.375(a)(3), a class C felony Jennings offense involved possession of marijuana while he was incarcerated at the Palmer Correctional Facility. Sentencing was held before Judge Beverly Cutler on August 15, 1985. Jennings and the state stipulated that Jennings had formerly been convicted of three prior felony charges. Therefore, Jennings was subject to a presumptive sentence of three years. See AS 12.55.125(e)(2). The state stipulated that Jennings offense was subject to a mitigating factor, that factor, that "the conduct constituting the offense was among the least serious conduct included in the definition of the offense," based upon the small amount of marijuana. Based on the mitigating factor, Judge Cutler reduced the three-year presumptive sentence to eighteen months. See AS 12.55.155(a)(1). Judge Cutler imposed this sentence consecutively to the other sentences which Jennings was serving. When she imposed the sentence consecutively, Judge Cutler stated that she was required to make the sentence consecutive by law. Judge Cutler was apparently referring to AS 12.55.025(e) which provides: