In Re Goodwin

50 P.3d 618
CourtWashington Supreme Court
DecidedJuly 25, 2002
Docket70916-5
StatusPublished
Cited by33 cases

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Bluebook
In Re Goodwin, 50 P.3d 618 (Wash. 2002).

Opinion

50 P.3d 618 (2002)
146 Wash.2d 861

In re the Personal Restraint Petition of Jerry GOODWIN, Petitioner.

No. 70916-5.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Argued March 14, 2002.
Decided July 25, 2002.

*620 David Zuckerman, Seattle, for Petitioner.

Gerald Horne, Pierce County Prosecutor, Barbara Corey-Boulet, Deputy, Michelle Luna-Green, Deputy, Tacoma, for Appellee/Respondent.

*619 MADSEN, J.

Personal restraint petitioner Jerry Goodwin seeks relief from his sentence on the ground that his offender score was miscalculated because juvenile offenses that had "washed out" were used to determine the score. He asks to be resentenced based upon a corrected offender score. We grant the petition, vacate the sentence, and remand for resentencing.

Facts

On August 17, 1998, the State charged personal restraint petitioner Jerry Goodwin with one count of intent to manufacture methamphetamine and one count of possession of pseudoephedrine with intent to manufacture methamphetamine. As to each count, the State alleged that Goodwin was armed with a firearm. The State also charged Goodwin with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in the first degree. On September 22, 1998, as part of a negotiated plea agreement, the State filed an amended information charging Goodwin with one count of conspiracy to manufacture a controlled substance and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in the first degree. Goodwin entered an Alford plea of guilty to these charges.[1]

Goodwin's statement on plea of guilty shows that the standard range for the conspiracy charge (an unranked offense) was 0 to 12 months, and the standard range for the possession charge was 36 to 48 months. The range for the possession charge was determined using an offender score of 4, which was based upon a criminal history listed in the statement of robbery in California (Butte), some misdemeanors, auto theft, burglary 2, and robbery (Butte). With regard to this history, the statement provides that unless Goodwin had included a different statement, which he had not, he agreed that the prosecuting attorney's statement of his criminal history was correct and complete. The plea statement also contains a preprinted paragraph explaining when juvenile convictions were to be included in criminal history.

On the same day, September 22, 1998, the trial court held a sentencing hearing and entered a judgment and sentence that listed Goodwin's criminal history as auto theft, burglary 2, and robbery, all committed when Goodwin was a juvenile, and robbery, committed when Goodwin was an adult. The judgment and sentence includes Goodwin's birth date, June 10, 1970. The trial court determined that Goodwin's offender score was 4, and imposed a sentence of 12 months and one day on the conspiracy count and 48 months on the count of unlawful possession of a firearm, in accord with the plea agreement.

Goodwin did not file an appeal. On December 5, 2000, he filed a pro se personal *621 restraint petition, contending that his juvenile convictions for auto theft and burglary "washed out" under former RCW 9.94A.030 (1989), and therefore these convictions were improperly used in calculating his offender score. He cited State v. Cruz, 139 Wash.2d 186, 189, 985 P.2d 384 (1999), which held that a 1990 amendment to this statute did not revive prior juvenile convictions for sex offenses that had already "washed out." Goodwin also contended that the two robberies listed in the judgment and sentence were the same offense, committed when he was an adult. The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals dismissed the petition in reliance on State v. Hendricks, 103 Wash.App. 728, 14 P.3d 811 (2000), rev'd in State v. Smith, 144 Wash.2d 665, 30 P.3d 1245, 39 P.3d 294 (2001), in which the Court of Appeals held that a 1997 amendment applied and required all juvenile offenses to be included in criminal history.

Goodwin filed a motion for discretionary review in this court. Consideration of the motion was stayed pending this court's decision in Smith, 144 Wash.2d 665, 30 P.3d 1245 (involving consolidated cases, including Hendricks ), as to the effect of the 1997 amendment. In Smith, this court held that neither the 1997 amendment to RCW 9.94A.030 nor a 2000 amendment, enacted in response to Cruz, 139 Wash.2d 186, 985 P.2d 384, applied to revive juvenile convictions that had "washed out" prior to the 1997 amendment. Smith, 144 Wash.2d at 668, 30 P.3d 1245. Once Smith was filed, the parties were directed to file additional briefing addressing that decision's application to Goodwin's case. The State then conceded that in light of Smith, Goodwin's juvenile convictions were improperly counted. The State contended, however, that Goodwin waived the issue by agreeing to the criminal history listed in his statement on plea of guilty. Alternatively, the State argued that Goodwin breached the plea agreement by collaterally attacking his sentence. Thereafter, this court granted discretionary review and appointed counsel to represent Mr. Goodwin.

Analysis

Initially, the State appropriately concedes that Goodwin may challenge his sentence despite the one-year bar of RCW 10.73.090 because the judgment and sentence appears invalid on its face. RCW 10.73.090(1) provides that "[n]o petition or motion for collateral attack on a judgment and sentence in a criminal case may be filed more than one year after the judgment becomes final if the judgment and sentence is valid on its face and was rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction." In determining what "valid on its face" means for purposes of RCW 10.73.090, we have referred to a case involving the question whether the State had to prove the constitutional validity of all prior convictions used in determining a sentence under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1981. In re Pers. Restraint of Stoudmire, 141 Wash.2d 342, 353, 5 P.3d 1240 (2000) (citing and quoting State v. Ammons, 105 Wash.2d 175, 187, 713 P.2d 719, 718 P.2d 796 (1986)); In re Pers. Restraint of Thompson, 141 Wash.2d 712, 718, 10 P.3d 380 (2000) (same). In Ammons, the court reasoned that "[c]onstitutionally invalid on its face means a conviction which without further elaboration evidences infirmities of a constitutional magnitude." Ammons, 105 Wash.2d at 188, 713 P.2d 719.

We have never held, however, that RCW 10.73.090 requires, merely by use of the words "valid on its face," that the only type of invalidity that will prevent operation of the one-year bar to filing a personal restraint petition is constitutional infirmity.

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