State v. Johnson

¶1 Despite claims of insanity and/or diminished capacity, George Johnson, Jr., was convicted of three counts of bank robbery. He contends the trial court improperly limited expert testimony concerning his defenses and improperly instructed the jury about diminished capacity. Johnson also appeals his sentence, arguing that certain prior convictions should not have counted as “strikes” under the Persistent Offender Accountability Act (POAA) of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1981, chapter 9.94A RCW; that the State should have been required to prove his prior convictions to the jury beyond a…