State v. Releford

Dwyer, A.C.J.

¶1 In order to establish that a foreign conviction was for an offense comparable to a Washington felony, the State need not independently prove those facts related to the foreign conviction that were admitted by the defendant. Here, Terrence Releford was twice convicted in Oklahoma of burglary in the second degree based on guilty pleas. In Oklahoma at the time of Releford’s guilty pleas, such a plea constituted an admission of “the facts pleaded in the Information.” Collins v. State, 1974 OK CR 79, 521 P.2d 826, 828. The information in each of the two cases in *483which Releford…