Matter of Personal Restraint of Moore

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• holding that a petitioner may not bring an equal protection challenge or argue that his sentence is cruel and unusual for the first time in a personal restraint petition when the defendant agreed to the sentence by pleading guilty
• holding when this court interprets a statute, that statute is deemed to have had that newly interpreted meaning since that statute was enacted
• holding when this court interprets a statute, that statute is deemed to have had that newly interpreted meaning since that statute was enacted
• holding on legislative intent “relates back to the enactment of that legislation”
• holding on legislative intent \relates back to the enactment of that legislation\
• finding Majors inapposite because the petitioner did not challenge any of his factual stipulations but only whether the sentence he received was statutorily authorized given those facts

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