Personal Restraint Petition Of Matthew Ray Douglas Schley

¶1 An offender facing revocation of a sentence imposed pursuant to the drug offender sentencing alternative (DOSA) has a due process right to have an alleged violation of a condition of the sentence proved by a preponderance of the evidence. In this case, Matthew Schley’s DOSA sentence was revoked when the State proved by a preponderance of the evidence that he had been terminated from the required substance abuse treatment program. But the basis for the termination from the treatment program was a determination in a prior proceeding that Schley had been involved in a fight, which was a…