State v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 2010
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blakely v. Washington · United States v. Jackson · Washington v. Recuenco · 154 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Hughes · Brown v. Sanders
Most-quoted passages
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“Whenever a person is convicted of two or more serious violent offenses arising from separate and distinct criminal conduct, the standard sentence range for the offense with the highest seriousness level under RCW 9.94A.515 shall be determined using the offender’s prior convictions and other current convictions that are not serious violent offenses in the offender score and the standard sentence range for other serious violent offenses shall be determined by using an offender score of zero. The standard sentence range for any offenses that are not serious violent offenses shall be determined according to (a) of this subsection. All sentences imposed under (b) of this subsection shall be served consecutively to each other and concurrently with sentences imposed under (a) of this subsection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Except as provided in (b) or (c) of this subsection, whenever a person is to be sentenced for two or more current offenses, the sentence range for each current offense shall be determined by using all other current and prior convictions as if they were prior convictions for the purpose of the offender score: PROVIDED, That if the court enters a finding that some or all of the current offenses encompass the same criminal conduct then those current offenses shall be counted as one crime. Sentences imposed under this subsection shall be served concurrently. Consecutive sentences may only be imposed under the exceptional sentence provisions of RCW 9.94A.535 ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Thus, just as our Supreme Court held that the trial judge in VanDelft erred by imposing exceptional sentences based on the judge's own factual determination, we now hold that Vance's sentencing judge erred by doing the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vance
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