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Panel considers narrow fix to resentencing for some exceptional pleas tied to robbery-2 changes
Summary
House Bill 1229 would require resentencing in cases where a defendant accepted an exceptional sentence via plea to avoid a persistent-offender designation based in part on robbery in the second degree; advocates called it a small technical fix for people left behind by earlier statutory changes, while prosecutors raised capacity and eligibility
Staff told the committee House Bill 1229 would require resentencing for people who entered plea agreements to exceptional sentences to avoid persistent-offender designations where a robbery in the second degree conviction was used as one basis for the persistent-offender finding. The staff briefing explained that robbery in the second degree had been removed from the statutory list of "most serious offenses" in 2019 and that…
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