State Of Washington, V. Jacobi Weekly

CourtCourt of Appeals of Washington
DecidedFebruary 23, 2022
Docket53583-1
StatusUnpublished

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Opinion

Filed Washington State Court of Appeals Division Two

February 23, 2022 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

DIVISION II STATE OF WASHINGTON, No. 53583-1-II

Respondent,

v.

JACOBI LYNN WEEKLY, UNPUBLISHED OPINION

Appellant.

GLASGOW, J.—Jacobi Lynn Weekly physically assaulted his girlfriend, Jasmine

Vanguilder, and had sexual intercourse with another woman, AI, twice against her will. The State

charged him with two counts of second degree rape of AI and one count of second degree assault

of Vanguilder. Based on calls he made to Vanguilder from jail, the State later charged Weekly

with three counts of witness tampering. The trial court denied Weekly’s motions to sever the

witness tampering charges, and a jury convicted Weekly of all counts. The trial court imposed an

exceptional upward sentence of 340 months to life.

Weekly appeals his convictions and sentence. He argues the trial court abused its discretion

by denying his motions to sever, his offender score includes unconstitutional prior convictions for

possession of controlled substances, and the trial court erred by failing to enter written findings

supporting the exceptional sentence. He also filed a statement of additional grounds for review

(SAG).

We affirm Weekly’s convictions, but we reverse his sentence and remand for the trial court

to remove his unconstitutional prior convictions from his offender score and resentence him. No. 53583-1-II

FACTS

A. Background

AI went to her friend John P. Ingersoll’s house in August 2018. The two later drove to a

store to purchase cigarettes. At the store, they encountered Weekly and Vanguilder, who did not

have a permanent residence at the time. Neither AI nor Ingersoll had met Weekly or Vanguilder

before. Ingersoll invited Weekly and Vanguilder to his house.

At Ingersoll’s home, Ingersoll, AI, Weekly, and Vanguilder stayed up late into the night

talking. Ingersoll and Weekly drank alcohol and the women used methamphetamine together. Over

the course of the evening, Weekly bragged that he controlled Vanguilder, that she did whatever he

asked, and that he could demand sexual intercourse with her whenever he wanted. AI argued with

him about his treatment of Vanguilder.

Early the next morning, Ingersoll went to bed. The three guests remained in his house.

Ingersoll was a heavy sleeper and also took medication that helped him sleep. He did not wake

until late morning. AI remained at Ingersoll’s home after he went to bed because she was afraid

Weekly and Vanguilder might steal from Ingersoll while he was sleeping because she had seen

them looking through his possessions.

Weekly told Vanguilder to ask whether AI would be interested in having sexual intercourse

with both Weekly and Vanguilder. AI declined. Weekly began to move toward Ingersoll’s

bedroom, and when AI attempted to stop him, they engaged in a struggle that ended when Weekly

pushed AI hard enough to knock her to the floor, dislodging and breaking her glasses and hearing

aid. After pushing AI to the floor, Weekly had intercourse with her.

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Weekly then drove Ingersoll’s Jeep to the store and other errands, bringing AI and

Vanguilder with him. Weekly and Vanguilder got into several arguments throughout the trip, and

Weekly choked Vanguilder in the car in front of AI.

Upon returning to Ingersoll’s house, Weekly parked the Jeep in the garage and Vanguilder

went into the house. Weekly demanded that AI have intercourse with him, and he threatened to

harm Vanguilder further if AI refused. AI complied.

Weekly and Vanguilder then left for an appointment with Weekly’s probation officer, again

in Ingersoll’s Jeep, leaving AI in Ingersoll’s house. AI eventually left Ingersoll’s house on her

motorcycle. Upon reaching her home, she called her husband and told him that she had been raped;

her husband called 911.

After an interview with police, AI went to the hospital for a forensic sexual assault

examination. She had multiple bruises and lacerations, and the nurse collected swabs for DNA

testing.

B. Pretrial

The State charged Weekly with two counts of second degree rape in August 2018. At his

arraignment, he was ordered not to contact Vanguilder, AI, or Ingersoll. Weekly made 140 calls

from jail to Vanguilder between August 2018 and March 2019. In the calls, he asked Vanguilder

to come to court to testify for him, as well as speak to police and his attorney to “[l]et the

motherf[*****]s know what happened,” and he asked her what she had told investigators. Clerk’s

Papers (CP) at 203. In one call, Weekly told Vanguilder that “you wouldn’t be talking to me like

this, b[****], if I was out there, because you know I would smack the fire out of you.” CP at 231-

32. In another call, he told Vanguilder to tell AI to “clean that s[***] up” and to threaten to tell

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AI’s husband that AI was having an affair with Ingersoll and using methamphetamine. Verbatim

Report of Proceedings (VRP) (May 22, 2019) at 1595. Weekly also told Vanguilder to inform

Ingersoll that Weekly and “‘his people’” knew where Ingersoll lived. Id. at 1598.

The State amended the charges against Weekly on March 15, 2019 to include two counts

of second degree rape of AI, one count of second degree assault of Vanguilder, and three counts

of witness tampering involving Vanguilder, AI, and Ingersoll. Our record does not indicate when

Weekly was arraigned on the amended information.

Weekly moved pretrial to sever the witness tampering charges from the rape and assault

charges. Weekly argued that his consent defense to the rapes and his general denial defense to the

witness tampering conflicted and that the evidence for the two sets of charges was not cross

admissible. The State argued there would be no prejudice from trying the charges together, while

severing the charges would waste resources.

The trial court denied the motion to sever, noting that the evidence relevant to the two sets

of charges was cross admissible. The trial court explained that the recordings of the jail calls would

be relevant to the rape and assault charges because they showed consciousness of guilt, and the

recordings were admissible because they were admissions of a party opponent. The trial court

concluded, “There doesn’t seem to me that there is any economy saved by splitting the case up,

and I don’t see how there is any prejudice saved, if you will, to the defense because this information

was all coming in anyway.” VRP (May 2, 2019) at 80.

C. Trial

AI, Vanguilder, and Weekly all testified that AI and Weekly had a struggle that ended

when Weekly shoved AI with enough force to knock her to the floor and dislodge and break her

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glasses and hearing aid. AI testified that while she was on the ground, Weekly grabbed her by the

throat and told her “everything was going to be okay as long as [she] just cooperated.” VRP (May

15, 2019) at 848. AI testified that she did not further resist intercourse with Weekly “[b]ecause he

had already overpowered [her] once, and it wouldn’t have been hard for him to do it again. [She]

figured the best way was to cooperate. That way [she] wouldn’t be physically injured more than

[she] already was.” Id. at 864.

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