Legal Opinion · Dissent

In re the Personal Restraint of Green

Court of Appeals of Washington

Decided August 21, 2012No. 41166-1-IIPublished

1Dissent

Johanson, A.C.J.

¶18 (dissenting) — Because the sentence imposed here looks like a hybrid sentence and acts like a hybrid sentence, I would hold it is a hybrid sentence. When a trial court imposes sentences with some terms running concurrently and others consecutively to each other, then it imposes an illegal hybrid sentence. Accordingly, I would remand for resentencing.

¶19 The majority holds that because the trial court sentenced Green under subsection (2) of RCW 9.94A.589, prior case law invalidating unlawful hybrid sentences un*338der subsection (3) of RCW 9.94A.589 does not apply here. I…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. State v. GraysonCourt of Appeals of Washington · 2005
  2. State v. GraysonCourt of Appeals of Washington · 2005
  3. State v. SmithCourt of Appeals of Washington · 2007
  4. State v. SmithCourt of Appeals of Washington · 2007

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