In re the Personal Restraint of Rowland

¶1 Years after the trial court imposed an exceptional sentence of 541 months upon petitioner Michael Rowland, he seeks relief on the basis that an incorrect analysis of the comparability of a prior California burglary conviction produced an error in his offender score. The alleged error is not evident on the face of the judgment and sentence. Thus, the statutory one-year time limit bars his petition unless one of the statutory exceptions applies. Here, Rowland’s petition comes within one of the statutory exceptions. There has been a significant change in the law governing the legal…