In re the Personal Restraint of Echeverria

— Petitioner Jose Echeverría seeks review of a decision of the Court of Appeals, Division Three, which dismissed his personal restraint petition in which he claimed his exceptional sentence for murder in the second *325degree is unlawful because the Superior Court for Benton and Franklin Counties denied him his right of allocution during his sentencing hearing. The Court of Appeals concluded that Petitioner’s sentence was not subject to collateral attack by personal restraint petition because denial of his right of allocution was “non-constitutional error” which did not inherently result in a…