Opinion ID: 2546738
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Conversion of More than 30 Days to Community Service

Text: ¶ 33 As part of Law's exceptional sentence, the trial court converted four months of her sentence to community service. The Court of Appeals reversed holding that the SRA permits a maximum conversion of 30 days. Law, 117 Wash.App. 1056, 2003 WL 21546228, at . ¶ 34 The SRA governs alternatives to confinement and conversion of confinement to community service. Alternatives to total confinement are available for offenders with sentences of one year or less. These alternatives include the following sentence conditions that the court may order as substitutes for total confinement: ... for offenders convicted of nonviolent offenses only, eight hours of community service may be substituted for one day of total confinement, with a maximum conversion limit of two hundred forty hours or thirty days. Former RCW 9.94A.380 (1999) (emphasis added), recodified as RCW 9.94A.680. Former RCW 9.94A.380 has two substantive limitations; first, it is available only for offenders with sentences of one year or less, and second, it limits the amount of confinement eligible to be converted to a maximum of 30 days. [17] See id. Because we hold today that Law's exceptional sentence was improper as a matter of law, and remand for resentencing within the standard range, Law's sentence will necessarily be for a period greater than one year. [18] On remand, former RCW 9.94A.380 will not permit conversion of confinement to community service and thus the trial court's conversion is rendered moot by our decision. C