Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2020-05-19 18:38:51.744759+00
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                                                                                           Washington State
                                                                                           Court of Appeals
                                                                                            Division Two

                                                                                             May 19, 2020

    IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

                                          DIVISION II
 STATE OF WASHINGTON,                                                 No. 53001-5-II

                                Respondent,

           v.                                                  UNPUBLISHED OPINION

 DAVIN MARTIN KINGSTON, aka DAVIN
 STERN,

                                Appellant.

       MAXA, J. — Davin Kingston appeals the trial court’s entry of sentence and community

custody conditions that prohibit his contact with minor children. He argues that the trial court’s

oral ruling regarding the conditions made an exception for contact with his own biological child,

but that the conditions, as written, do not reflect that ruling. The State agrees that the court

intended to make an exception for contact with Kingston’s child.

       We accept the State’s concession, and we remand for the trial court to amend Kingston’s

sentence and community custody conditions to reflect that he is able to have contact with his

biological child.

                                               FACTS

       After a jury trial, Kingston was found guilty of child molestation in the second degree.

The trial court imposed a sentence of 20 months of confinement and 36 months of community

custody.
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         Kingston and his long-term girlfriend are the parents of a minor child. At the sentencing

hearing, the State requested that Kingston have no contact with minors except for his biological

child. When issuing Kingston’s sentence, the trial court stated, “No contact with minors, except

biological child.” Report of Proceedings at 992.

         However, the sentence and community custody conditions listed in appendix A to

Kingston’s judgment and sentence do not reflect this exception. Three conditions preclude

Kingston’s contact with all minors:

         3. You shall not enter into or frequent business establishments or locations that
         cater to minor children or locations where minors are known to congregate
         without prior approval of DOC. . . .

         4. You shall not have any contact with minors without prior approval of DOC
         and your sexual deviancy treatment provider.

         ....

         14. You shall not hold any position of trust or authority over minor children
         without prior approval of DOC and your sexual deviancy treatment provider.

Clerk’s Papers (CP) at 136-37. One condition precludes Kingston’s contact with his

girlfriend because she is parenting their minor child:

         13.1 You shall not enter into a romantic relationship with another person who has
         minor children in their care or custody without prior approval of DOC and your
         sexual deviancy treatment provider.

CP at 137.

         In addition, there are two crime-related conditions in appendix F to the judgment and

sentence that are similar to conditions 3 and 4.2

1
  Appendix A to the judgment and sentence misnumbers this condition, which follows condition
14.
2
    Kingston does not expressly reference these conditions.

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       Kingston appeals the imposition of these community custody conditions.

                                            ANALYSIS

       Kingston argues, and the State concedes, that the trial court inadvertently imposed

community custody conditions that would not allow him to have contact with his own biological

child. We agree.

       Clerical mistakes in judgments or orders may be corrected by the court at any time on the

motion of any party. CrR 7.8(a). An error is clerical if the judgment, as amended, embodies the

trial court’s intention as expressed in the record at trial. State v. Snapp, 119 Wn. App. 614, 627,

82 P.3d 252 (2004). “[T]he amended judgment should either correct the language to reflect the

court’s intention or add the language the court inadvertently omitted.” Id. The remedy for a

clerical error in a judgment and sentence is to remand to the trial court for correction. State v.

Makekau, 194 Wn. App. 407, 421, 378 P.3d 577 (2016).

       At sentencing, the State recommended that Kingston’s biological child be excluded from

community custody conditions that prohibit Kingston’s contact with minor children. The trial

court agreed. Because the judgment and sentence does not accurately reflect the trial court’s

intent, the challenged conditions, as written, constitute clerical errors. Snapp, 119 Wn. App. at

627. The proper remedy is to remand to the trial court for correction of the judgment and

sentence. Makekau, 194 Wn. App. at 421.

                                          CONCLUSION

       We remand for the trial court to amend Kingston’s sentencing and community custody

conditions to reflect that he is able to have contact with his biological child.

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       A majority of the panel having determined that this opinion will not be printed in the

Washington Appellate Reports, but will be filed for public record in accordance with RCW

2.06.040, it is so ordered.

                                                    MAXA, J.

 We concur:

 WORSWICK, P.J.

 GLASGOW, J.

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