State v. Autrey

150 P.3d 580, 136 Wash. App. 460
Court of Appeals of Washington·Decided December 28, 2006·No. 24670-1-III, 24952-2-III·Published·Cited by 43 cases

Opinion

150 P.3d 580 (2006)

STATE of Washington, Respondent,
v.
Justin Daniel AUTREY, Appellant.
State of Washington, Respondent,
v.
Darrell R. Abbott, Appellant.

Nos. 24670-1-III, 24952-2-III.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 3.

December 28, 2006.

*582 William D. Edelblute, Attorney at Law, Spokane, WA, for Appellant.

Kevin Michael Korsmo, Attorney at Law, Spokane, WA, for Respondent.

*583 BROWN, J.

¶ 1 We linked these cases to consider like questions about the validity of "explicit consent" and "prior approval" community custody conditions. Justin D. Autrey additionally contends the court erred in rejecting his Special Sex Offender Sentencing Alternative (SSOSA) request. Darrell R. Abbott additionally contends the court erred in imposing a community custody condition allowing the Department of Corrections (DOC) to enter his residence upon reasonable suspicion a community custody violation occurred. Finding no error, we affirm.

FACTS

¶ 2 State v. Autrey. In 2001, Mr. Autrey, who was 21 years old at the time, began a sexual relationship with the 12-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, Rebecca Hooven (Ms. Hooven). Mr. Autrey repeatedly engaged in sexual contact and intercourse with Ms. Hooven's daughter until around July 2004. The State charged Mr. Autrey with one count of second degree rape of a child and one count of third degree rape of a child. He pleaded guilty as charged in August 2005. Although DOC's pre-sentence investigation report (PSI) disagreed, the State, under a plea agreement, recommended a sentence at the low end of the standard range to be suspended under SSOSA.

¶ 3 Mr. Autrey was sentenced in October 2005. Defense counsel, with support from the victim and Ms. Hooven, argued for a SSOSA. The State made its agreed recommendation for a SSOSA. Dr. Paul Wert reported he considered Mr. Autrey an appropriate, but marginal, candidate for SSOSA.

¶ 4 Ms. Hooven explained she wanted to maintain a family relationship with Mr. Autrey, herself and her daughter, indicating her then 16-year-old daughter would move out when she turned 18. But Ms. Hooven added, if her daughter wanted to move back that Mr. Autrey would have to find a place of his own.

¶ 5 The court responded, "I'm speaking frankly . . . you didn't protect your daughter before and now you want to take back the man who had sex with your 12-year-old daughter while he was living with you. This is the man you want to live with. So how do I know that you are going to protect her from him?" Report of Proceedings (RP) at 16. The court observed the mother "is not saying she is going to protect her daughter. I don't hear that." RP at 18. Rejecting SSOSA, the court ordered Mr. Autrey to 111 months confinement, the low end of the standard range, including community custody conditions:

(20) That you do not have sexual contact with anyone without his or her explicit consent.
(21) That you do not have sexual contact with anyone without prior approval of your therapist and your community corrections officer.

Clerk's Papers (CP) at 29.

¶ 6 This appeal followed.

¶ 7 State v. Abbott. Mr. Abbott pleaded guilty to second degree assault with sexual motivation. The victim was a minor. Over Mr. Abbott's objection, the court imposed the following community custody conditions:

Condition # 20: That you do not have sexual contact with anyone without his or her explicit consent.
Condition # 21: That you do not have sexual contact with anyone without prior approval of your therapist.
Condition # 24: That you permit DOC home visits to monitor compliance with the conditions of community custody. . . . Such home visits shall not be conducted unless there exists a well founded, reasonable suspicion that a violation of the terms of Community Custody has occurred.

CP at 42. This appeal followed.

ANALYSIS

A. Community Custody Conditions

¶ 8 The issue is whether the trial court erred by imposing community custody conditions requiring Mr. Autrey and Mr. Abbott (appellants) to obtain explicit consent before sexual contact and prior approval from their therapist (and Community Corrections Officer (CCO) in Mr. Autrey's case). Appellants contend explicit-consent condition *584 20 does not relate to their convictions involving minors and is unconstitutionally vague. Appellants contend condition 21 does not relate to their crimes and constitutes and improperly delegates the court's discretion to the therapist (and CCO in Mr. Autrey's case).

¶ 9 Generally, a court may impose crime-related prohibitions and affirmative conditions. RCW 9.94A.505(8). A "crime-related prohibition" is an order prohibiting conduct that directly relates to the circumstances of the crime. RCW 9.94A.030(13). We review whether a community placement decision is crime-related for abuse of discretion. State v. Riley, 121 Wash.2d 22, 37, 846 P.2d 1365 (1993).

¶ 10 "Crime-related prohibitions" during the period of community custody following release from total confinement further the "purposes of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1981 . . . [which include] imposition of just punishment, protection of the public, and offering the offender an opportunity for self-improvement." State v. Letourneau, 100 Wash.App. 424, 431, 997 P.2d 436 (2000). "`Crime-related prohibition' means an order of a court prohibiting conduct that directly relates to the circumstances of the crime for which the offender has been convicted, and shall not be construed to mean orders directing an offender affirmatively to participate in rehabilitative programs or to otherwise perform affirmative conduct." RCW 9.94A.030(13). "Although the conduct prohibited during community custody must be directly related to the crime, it need not be causally related to the crime." Letourneau, 100 Wash.App. at 432, 997 P.2d 436.

¶ 11 Here, Mr. Autrey was convicted of rape of a child and Mr. Abbott was convicted of second degree assault with sexual motivation, involving a minor. As a community custody condition, appellants were prohibited from having sexual contact with anyone without that person's explicit consent. Generally, non-consensual sex is criminal conduct. Thus, the "explicit consent" requirement is reasonably crime-related. Appellants' actions involved children too young to legally consent. Hence, the trial court did not abuse its discretion by finding this condition reasonably necessary to accomplish the State's purpose of protecting the public.

¶ 12 Turning to appellants' vagueness argument, we review alleged due process violations de novo. State v. Sandoval, 123 Wash.App. 1, 4, 94 P.3d 323 (2004). Due pr

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