In re the Personal Restraint of Hall

¶20 (dissenting) — Ronald Hall was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his vicious assault on Ms. Kim Krapf more than 10 years ago. Today, a majority of this court decides, in essence, that Hall should be set free after serving only 11 years for this crime.9 In light of a later United States Supreme Court decision, the trial court had erred in failing to submit the aggravating factors supporting Hall’s exceptional sentence to the jury. The United States Supreme Court remanded the case to us to decide whether this error requires reversal of his sentence. I would uphold that sentence under a…