State v. Kuhlman

¶1 Mr. Terry Kuhlman pleaded guilty to failure to register as a sex offender and was convicted of second degree trafficking in stolen property. On appeal, he asserts the trial court’s use of his prior juvenile convictions in calculating his offender score violated his right to jury trial as articulated in Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S. Ct. 2531, 159 L. Ed. 2d 403 (2004). Mr. Kuhlman contends that the trial court imposed an exceptional sentence by setting the sentences on his two convictions to run consecutively rather than concurrently. We hold that juvenile adjudications fall…