State v. Armendariz

¶1 The Sentencing Reform Act of 1981 (SRA), chapter 9.94A RCW, authorizes trial courts to impose crime-related prohibitions1 as part of defendants’ sentences.2 We conclude that, as part of any felony sentence, such crime-related prohibitions may include orders prohibiting contact with victims or witnesses for the statutory maximum term. Thus, we hold that the trial court in the present case did not abuse its discretion in imposing a five-year no-contact order as part of petitioner Ismael Armendariz’s sentence for third-degree assault.3

J.M. Johnson, J.

Facts and Procedural History

¶2 In November…