Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any sentence imposed under this chapter shall be determined in accordance with the law in effect when the current offense was committed.
RCW 9.94A.345
Timing.
Applied in 73 court decisions — leading case State v. Pillatos (2007)
Most recently applied in State Of Washington, V Christian D. Solomon-gibson (February 2025)
2021 c 286 s 2; 2021 c 141 s 2; 2000 c 26 s 2.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.