In Re the Personal Restraint of Baca

Ronald J. Baca seeks relief from personal restraint imposed by Spokane County convictions of first degree robbery and attempt to elude a police vehicle.

Mr. Baca was sentenced on September 2, 1981, to 20 years in prison on the robbery count and 5 years on the eluding count, the sentences to run concurrently. He received a IVi -year mandatory minimum term because he had a prior felony conviction and was armed with a firearm during the robbery. See RCW 9.95.040. He now asks that the mandatory minimum term be reduced to 5 years in accordance with a plea bargain.

At the time he entered his plea…