State v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “RCW 9.94A.360(6) provides that where the present offense is for an anticipatory crime, each prior conviction should be treated as if the present conviction were for the completed offense. In this case, the defendants' conviction for the solicitation of delivery of cocaine should be treated as a delivery of cocaine offense which is a drug offense under chapter 69.50 RCW. Therefore, the defendants' prior felony drug convictions each count three points. RCW 9.94A.360(12). We hold that RCW 9.94A.360(6) and (12) plainly establish the defendant's prior drug offenses count as three points.... The plain language of the statute is not ambiguous. We need not apply the rule of lenity or inquire into the statute's legislative history. [9]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McCarthy

2. “the same as if they were convictions for completed offenses. " RCW 9.94A.360(4) (emphasis added); see also former RCW 9.94A.410. McCarthy contends his prior conviction for solicitation to deliver is not a "drug offense,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McCarthy

3. “[6] they pointed to the holding in Hopkins that, for purposes of the doubling requirement in RCW 69.50.408(a), a conviction for solicitation to deliver was not a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McCarthy