Anchorage man sentenced to 48 years after slashing man to death after sex

A 29 year old man who slashed a man to death during a sexual encounter in Anchorage, AK was sentenced to 48 years in prison Thursday, December 10 by State Superior Court Judge Philip Volland.

Hunter killed Randall Roe, 47, after Roe picked him up on Fourth Avenue early one morning in November 2006. Roe, who had brain damage from a bicycle accident, was high on cocaine and had his own history of trouble. Something went wrong during the encounter, the men struggled, and Hunter pulled out a knife and killed Roe in the cab of Roe's pickup, according to trial testimony.

Hunter testified at both his trials that he acted in self-defense and that he was not himself because he was so intoxicated on malt beer and vodka the morning of the murder. The first jury couldn't reach a verdict. The second jury acquitted him of first-degree murder but convicted him of the lesser second-degree murder charge.

At the sentencing, the defense and prosecution argued over whether Hunter was just intoxicated that night and acting out or if he is a dangerous man with mental health problems who cannot be controlled. Prosecutor John Skidmore asked Volland to send Hunter away for 60 years, saying he was a danger to the community. Defense attorney Paul Maslakowski asked for the minimum 10 years.

One aspect of the trial which helped Judge Volland determine the character and mental state of Hunter was his two hour long statement, read to the courtroom after his conviction. Volland said that the statement told him more about the defendant than the evidence and statements from officials.
 
That allocution was telling me more about Mr. Hunter than anything else in this case...[It was] a rambling, disjointed discourse largely irrelevant to sentencing in which Mr. Hunter both simultaneously admitted to his various mental health and addiction problems and denied them...This is a man in denial of his problems. This is a man who has some significant cognitive problems. This is a man not completely in touch with his surroundings and the world.

Alaskan wife rapist sentenced to 10 years

A Fairbanks, Alaska man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 10 years probation for raping his wife at knifepoint in October 2007. Samuel Fevos Sr., 60 pled guilty to a single count of sexual assault. He faced 10 felony charges at arrest, including multiple sexual assault charges. In Alaska, sexual assault carries a maximum sentence of 99 years.

Authorities said Fevos, who has a history of mental illness and was off his medication at the time, called the woman in October 2007 and asked her to pick him up from the hospital. Upon reaching his home, he dragged her inside and assaulted her repeatedly while his roommate locked himself in another room, afraid of what Fevos would do to him if he called 911.

Fevos has made several attempts to contact his wife, who has filed for divorce, since he was incarcerated more than a year ago. [Prosecutor Jenel] Domke asked Superior Court Judge Robert Downes to order Fevos into an intensive probation program located in Anchorage that would require him to be in contact with a probation officer on a near daily basis.

Domke gave her opinion of the defendant. “The defendant is extremely violent. Any opportunity the defendant has to locate her, the state believes will put him in jeopardy once he’s released.”

Public Defender Michael Biderman said that Fevos should be paroled to Fairbanks instead of Alaska because his support system is in Fairbanks. "The chances of him re-offending are actually greater if he’s in Anchorage. He won’t have a place to live or friends to check up on him.”

Alaskan sentenced to 60 years in wife's death

The Associated Press
Published Saturday, September 27, 2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for stabbing his wife to death in 2006.

Leng Moua was convicted in the death of Shoua Lee. He was sentenced Friday in Anchorage Superior Court. Prosecutors say Lee was stabbed after a daylong argument over a trip to California.

The 57-year-old man was convicted in June of first-degree murder. He stabbed his wife multiple times with a butcher knife. He was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton, who called the killing a "horrible circumstance."

Alaska repeat rapist sentenced to a dozen years in prison

An Alaska repeat offender with more than 20 misdemeanor convictions, 7 assault convictions, and a previous sex offense was sentenced to a dozen years in prison Wednesday, August 27 for breaking into a woman’s home. His actual sentence was 20 years, but 8 of those years were suspended.

Judge Philip Pallenberg said to Newton Lindoff, “If there's any place where a person ought to feel safe it's their own bed in the middle of the night…With a record like this, an assaultive, a sexually assaultive conduct, at least under this sentence we know that won't happen for the next 12 years."

Lindoff's crime was an "eerie parallel" to one he committed nine years ago when he got drunk and broke into another woman's home in the middle of the night. While she was sleeping, Lindoff grabbed her crotch, Pallenberg said. He added that Lindoff's sentence of six months in prison for that crime had been "pretty light" and the Alaska Legislature had since stiffened penalties for sex crimes.

Judge Pallenburg called the 46 year old Lindoff an alcoholic who hurts people when he drinks, and ordered him to undergo sex offender treatment if Alaska reinstituted such programs.

DOC spokesman Richard Schmitz said the department abandoned sex offender treatment programs for prisoners under former Gov. Frank Murkowski's administration because it viewed those programs as ineffective.

Instead, he said the department has focused on a "containment model," which emphasizes treatment and stringent supervision, including lie-detector tests, after sex offenders are released from prison.

Schmitz said it is the department's goal to reintroduce sex offender treatment programs in prisons that would complement the current "containment" strategy.

Lindoff filed a motion requesting a reconsideration of his guilty verdict due to improper represention by counsel, and that he receive an “impartial jury trial.” Pallenberg denied that motion, and when Lindoff refused to give his fingerprints to the court, Pallenburg threatened to add more time for contempt of court as well as use force to get Lindoff’s prints, saying he could “choose the easy way or the hard way.”

Anchorage repeat rapist sentenced to 25 years

A repeat rapist was sentenced to 25 years in prison and 10 years probation for raping a woman after he finished a sentences for another rape.

Mark Abrell, 50, was convicted of first-degree sexual assault in December for the 2005 attack, Adrienne Bachman[Anchorage District Attorney] said. Abrell was already a registered sex offender at the time of the rape -- he was convicted in 1982 on multiple sexual assault counts. The victims in both attacks were strangers, Bachman said.

Abrell raped a woman in a wooded area in Anchorage back in 2005. Surveillance cameras captured the woman and her attacker just before the sex assault, and DNA evidence linked Abrell to the rape. He was sentenced by Judge John Suddock.