State v. Rowland

¶1 This case presents the question of whether Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 301, 124 S. Ct. 2531, *319159 L. Ed. 2d 403 (2004), applies to require that facts supporting an exceptional sentence be tried to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt on remand for resentencing from a collateral attack on a miscalculated offender score. Because Rowland’s collateral attack on his standard range sentence did not affect the finality of his exceptional sentence, we affirm the exceptional sentence imposed at the resentencing hearing. But because Rowland was entitled to dispute a new offender…