In RE LaHAPELLE

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[u]nder the current [Sentencing Reform Act of 1981, ch. 9.94A RCW], no offender has a vested right in the definition of criminal history in effect when a previous crime was committed”
• “A sentence, which was improperly calculated using previously washed out juvenile offenses, is invalid on its face.”
• \The difference of a single point may add or subtract three years to an offender's sentence.\
• discussing prior times when juvenile offenses did wash out
• discussing prior times when juvenile offenses did wash out
• “Before the 1997 amendment to the SRA [Sentencing Reform Act of 1981, ch. 9.94A RCW], offenses committed before age 15 were often described as washed out because they were not included in defendants’ criminal histories nor used to calculate their offender scores.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).