Kenneth Wayne Clifton v. State Alaska

Kenneth Wayne Clifton was convicted of one count of first-degree murder, AS 11.41.100(a)(1), and one count of misconduct involving weapons in the third degree, AS 11.61.220(a)(1). Superior Court Judge James A. Hanson sentenced Clifton to concurrent terms of sixty years and ninety days imprisonment. Clifton appeals, contending that the indictment against him was flawed due to the states failure to present exculpatory evidence to the grand jury, and that the trial Judge erred in allowing the state to impeach a defense witness with prior convictions that were more than five years old. Clifton also appeals the sixty-year sentence as excessive.