State v. Bartlett

— Petitioner Adam L. Bartlett seeks review of a decision of the Court of Appeals, Division One, which upheld an aggravated exceptional sentence imposed by the King County Superior Court upon his conviction for murder in the second degree. We granted review "only on the issue of whether the trial court violated the Sentencing Reform Act in treating the facts underlying petitioner’s 1988 assault conviction as a reason for imposing an exceptional sentence for the present murder conviction.” We answer the question in the negative and affirm.

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