In Re the Personal Restraint of Heidari

*290Alexander, J.*

f 1 We granted the State’s motion to review a decision of the Court of Appeals in which that court granted Mansour Heidari’s personal restraint petition and vacated his second degree child molestation conviction. In doing so, the Court of Appeals declined the State’s request to direct entry of a judgment for the lesser included offense of attempted second degree child molestation. We affirm the Court of Appeals.

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¶2 At a jury trial in King County Superior Court, Heidari was found guilty of first degree child rape, second degree child molestation, and third degree child…