...when he leaves prison. "I will always be a convicted felon, but I don't have to be a criminal," he said. Soto's attorney, Assistant Public Defender David Seid, said the resentencing agreement was "ultimately a fair compromise." He...

...illness of Smith's lawyer, public defender Darrel Gardner of Anchorage. Gardner is suffering from laryngitis, said Soto's attorney, Michael O'Brien, as he left the courtroom. "There will be a hearing at 4 p.m. today to decide if we continue...

...30 and six grams of marijuana." Smith "was considerably older and should have been wiser than Rey Soto," said Soto's attorney, Michael O'Brien, today. "He had some felony convictions on his record previous, and that made his posture...