State v. Worl’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “The sentence the Court previously imposed with respect to the Attempted Second Degree Murder is within the standard range. I do not have to address that. I do find that with respect to the Malicious Harassment, that there are two aggravating factors and circumstances which in my judgment warrant an exceptional sentence. Those are the multiple wounds inflicted upon Mr. Hill coupled that with the persistence in the attack upon Mr. Hill. There is evidence, in my judgment, of gratuitous violence. I find, with respect to that conviction, that there was deliberate cruelty.... I want to make it clear that this Court's primary motivating factor is multiple injuries and deliberate cruelty either of which standing alone, in this Court's judgment, are sufficient upon which to base an exceptional sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Worl

2. “Columbia Steel Co. v. State, 34 Wash.2d 700, 706 , 209 P.2d 482 (1949), cert. denied, 339 U.S. 903 , 70 S.Ct. 516 , 94 L.Ed. 1332 (1950). In Worl I , the defendant challenged his exceptional sentence on three bases. First, he argued that imposing separate sentences for each conviction violated double jeopardy. Second, he contended that the trial court erred in calculating his standard range because it failed to treat the two offenses as”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Worl

3. “[d]espite the apparent permissiveness of the language of the rule, this court and the courts of appeals in the years since the adoption of RAP 2.5(c) have adhered to the standards set forth in [its earlier opinions], requiring that an appellate court may reconsider only those decisions that were clearly erroneous and that would work a manifest injustice to one party if the clearly erroneous decision were not set aside.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roberson v. Perez