State v. Fowler

We granted Joshua Fowler’s petition to review a decision of the Court of Appeals in which that court reversed the sentencing court’s imposition of a sentence below the standard range following Fowler’s plea of guilty to a charge of first degree robbery. We conclude that the Court of Appeals did not err in reversing the exceptional sentence and, therefore, affirm that court, concluding, as it did, that Fowler should be resentenced within the standard range.

I. FACTS

On October 30, 1997, Joshua Fowler joined his friends Donald Aho and Denise Sables at “Fast Freddy’s Tavern” in Kent. Report of…