State v. Washington

LEWIS, Judge.

In April 1989, defendant was indicted for first-degree arson and conspiracy to commit arson. In August 1989, defendant pled guilty pursuant to a plea arrangement as to sentence to the conspiracy charge and to second-degree arson. Among the terms of the plea arrangement were that the charges would be consolidated for judgment and that the maximum sentence imposed would be thirty years. The evidence offered in support of the plea showed that on 25 February 1989, defendant and another man threw a “Molotov cocktail” into the occupied apartment of a woman whose friend had sold them…