Legal Opinion
In Re Personal Restraint Petition of Hopkins
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided December 18, 1997No. 39347-2-IPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAgid, J.
Thomas Hopkins contends he is entitled to collateral relief from his 81-month sentence for solicitation to deliver cocaine because it exceeds the 5-year statutory maximum sentence for a class C felony. We hold that because Hopkins has a prior drug conviction, the statutory maximum sentence for his crime was 10 years under RCW 69.50.408. We therefore deny his personal restraint petition.
DISCUSSION
In July 1995, Hopkins was arrested and charged with delivery of cocaine in a school zone. After plea negotiations, he entered an Alford 1 plea to solicitation to deliver cocaine without the school…
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