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State v. Barnes

Citations

  • 818 P.2d 1088
  • 117 Wash. 2d 701

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding finding of future dangerousness insufficient aggravating factor to justify exceptional sentence in nonsexual offense cases
  • recognizing distinction of adult and juvenile systems on this basis
  • recognizing distinction of adult and juvenile systems on this basis
  • pluralities constituting a majority agree that future dangerousness can be used only in sexual offenses
  • “In enacting the SRA, the Legislature changed our criminal sentencing system from an indeterminate, rehabilitation-oriented system to a determinate system, having punishment as its primary purpose.”
  • discussing the unreliability involved in predicting future dangerousness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Utter, Guy, Dolliver

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