In re the Personal Restraint of Banks

*515¶1 In order to avoid the possibility of a “three-strikes” life sentence, petitioner Frank Banks pleaded guilty to two nonstrike charges and agreed to an exceptional sentence of 150 months. Five years later he filed the present collateral attack upon the sentence, alleging that prior California convictions were erroneously found comparable to Washington felonies and as a result his offender score was miscalculated. But the alleged error is not evident on the face of the judgment and sentence, nor is it shown by documents related to the plea. Because the judgment and sentence is valid on its…