In re the Personal Restraint of Stoudmire

36 P.3d 1005, 145 Wash. 2d 258
CourtWashington Supreme Court
DecidedDecember 13, 2001
DocketNo. 70435-0
StatusPublished
Cited by38 cases

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In re the Personal Restraint of Stoudmire, 36 P.3d 1005, 145 Wash. 2d 258 (Wash. 2001).

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Bridge, J.

In this personal restraint petition (PRP), we are asked to determine whether a defendant may withdraw his guilty plea when the plea form failed to inform him of the duration of mandatory community placement. Jerrod Duane Stoudmire, who pleaded guilty to several counts involving child molestation, claims that he would not have pleaded guilty had he known of the mandatory two-year term of residential placement after incarceration. We hold [261]*261that this PRP is procedurally barred under RCW 10.73.090d).1

FACTS

On July 20, 1992, the State charged Stoudmire with one count of rape of a child in the second degree, under cause number 92-1-02984-9. On the same day, he was charged with two counts of indecent liberties, one count of statutory rape in the second degree, one count of rape of a child in the second degree, and one count of rape of a child in the third degree, under cause number 92-1-02985-7. Pursuant to a plea agreement, the prosecutor filed an amended information in the latter cause, charging one count of rape of a child in the second degree, and one count of assault in the third degree. All charges related to molesting children whom he was baby-sitting. The defendant entered guilty pleas to all charges.

The plea agreements stated that “[i]n addition to confinement, the judge will sentence me to community placement for at least 1 year,” and each contained language indicating that the prosecutor would recommend two years of community placement.2 Stoudmire acknowledged in court that he understood the recommendation for community placement. The presentence investigation report prepared by the Department of Corrections indicated that a two-year placement was mandatory. A copy of that report was sent to defense counsel, who acknowledged receiving it.

Because the parties had miscalculated the sentencing range and applicable offender score, Stoudmire withdrew his guilty pleas. But on September 20, 1993, Stoudmire entered guilty pleas again, this time to a second amended information charging the same crimes as the original infor[262]*262mation. By that time, he was already aware of the two-year mandatory placement.

At the sentencing hearing on September 28, 1993, the court imposed concurrent sentences totaling 198 months followed by two years of community placement. Stoudmire did not appeal, but on September 26, 1994, he filed a PRP, seeking to withdraw his plea because he was not informed of his correct offender scores or of the 15 percent limitation on earned early release time. On April 11, 1995, the Court of Appeals dismissed the petition. No appeal to this court was filed.

On January 20, 1999, Stoudmire, acting pro se, raised new issues in a second PRP. The Court of Appeals rejected the PRP, finding that he had not offered good cause for failing to raise the issues in the first PRP. This court granted discretionary review, and on August 10, 2000 granted relief on some of his claims, vacating the two convictions for indecent liberties and remanding for resentencing on some of the other convictions. In re Pers. Restraint of Stoudmire, 141 Wn.2d 342, 352-57, 5 P.3d 1240 (2000). We did not address the issue of whether Stoudmire was properly informed of the mandatory two-year community placement, because the petition was “mixed,” containing claims that were both timely and untimely under RCW 10.73.100. Id. at 350. In dictum, the court stated that Stoudmire would have the option to resubmit that claim in a subsequent petition. Id. at 350-51. Stoudmire has accepted our invitation.

ANALYSIS

Successive Petition

The prohibition on successive PRPs found in RCW 10.73.1403 limits the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals [263]*263but does not limit this court’s jurisdiction. In re Pers. Restraint of Johnson, 131 Wn.2d 558, 565, 933 P.2d 1019 (1997). RAP 16.4(d)4 bars consideration of a second petition for “similar relief” without a showing of good cause, but this court has already indicated that Stoudmire’s claim does not fall within the scope of “similar relief” contemplated by the rule:

[P]etitioner may resubmit this claim in a subsequent petition. RAP 16.4(d) bars consideration of a second petition “for similar relief” without a showing of good cause. Following the definition of “similar relief” in Sanders v. United States, 373 U.S. 1, 14, 83 S. Ct. 1068, 10 L. Ed. 2d 148 (1963), this court in In re Personal Restraint of Haverty, 101 Wn.2d 498, 502-03, 681 P.2d 835 (1984) stated that a successive petition could be dismissed only where the prior application had been denied on grounds previously heard and determined on the merits. Since we are dismissing on procedural grounds petitioner’s claim to withdrawal of his guilty pleas to second and third degree rape, we did not consider it on its merits.

Stoudmire, 141 Wn.2d at 350-51. Thus, this PRP is not barred as a successive petition.

Time Bar Under RCW 10.73.090(1)

Motions for collateral attack, including PRPs, must normally be filed within one year of final judgment:

[264]*264No 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.

RCW 10.73.090(1). This petition was filed over five years after the final judgment, and is barred unless it falls under a statutory exception or the conviction is facially invalid.

Stoudmire first claims that his petition falls under the exception provided in RCW 10.73.100(6), which allows a claim to be raised at a later date when it is based on a significant change in the law. He supports this with dicta from the previous Stoudmire opinion, wherein this court opined that the community placement issue “appears to fall within RCW 10.73.100(6).” Stoudmire, 141 Wn.2d at 346 (emphasis added). Stoudmire does not claim that any other statutory exception to the time bar applies.

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