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- Title: Charles R. White v. State Alaska
- Author : Supreme Court of Alaska
- Release Date : January 21, 1978
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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RABINOWITZ, Justice. OPINION. Charles White was indicted on two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. 1 After trial by jury, guilty verdicts were returned on both counts. 2 White has appealed alleging three separate specifications of error. White first asserts that AS 11.15.220, the assault with a dangerous weapon statute, as it read at the time of the alleged offenses, was violative of equal protection and therefore unconstitutional because it permitted different punishments or different degrees of punishment for the same act committed under the same circumstances by persons in like situations. In our recent opinion in Larson v. State, 569 P.2d 783 (Alaska 1977), we upheld the constitutionality of former AS 11.15.220 against a similar equal protection attack. There we said, in part: