Court Opinion

ID: 9568945
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:08:57.214542+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:17:12.748732
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Baker, J.
(concurring) — Under the unique facts of this *856case, I concur. However, I adhere to this court’s establishment of a “bright-line rule” in State v. Aguilar-Rivera.4 Failure to allow exercise of the right of allocution will result in a reversal, at least where the sentence imposed exceeds the low end of the standard range, or, as here, a low end sentence is imposed and the record is clear that no basis exists for imposition of an exceptional sentence below the standard range.
Review denied at 136 Wn.2d 1024 (1998).

State v. Aguilar-Rivera, 83 Wn. App. 199, 920 P.2d 623 (1996).