In re the Sentence of Jones

¶1 The Department of Corrections (DOC) filed these petitions pursuant to RAP 16.18 for review of the sentences of Tamra A. Jones, Ty J. Jordan, and Donald James Konshuk. The petitions concern a single issue: Whether the superior court has the authority to order a term of community custody in sentences of less than one year confinement for offenses other than those listed in RCW 9.94A.545. The cited statute provides that the court may impose up to one year of community custody in “sentences of confinement for one year or less, in which the offender is convicted of a sex offense, a violent…