Court Opinion

ID: 4392233
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Date Created: 2019-04-30 18:46:34.906529+00
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Filed
                                                                                         Washington State
                                                                                         Court of Appeals
                                                                                          Division Two

                                                                                           April 30, 2019
       IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

                                                DIVISION II
    In re the Personal Restraint Petition of:                        No. 52029-0-II

    JERRY DONALD MARSHALL,

                                   Petitioner.
                                                               UNPUBLISHED OPINION

          MELNICK, J. — Jerry Marshall seeks relief from personal restraint imposed following his

2003 plea of guilty to first degree child molestation.1 He argues that the following conditions of

community custody should not have been imposed:

           Consume no alcohol, if so directed by the [community corrections officer
          (CCO)].
          ....
           Possess/access no sexual exploitive materials (as defined by Defendant’s treating
          therapist or CCO.
          ....
           Possess/access no pornography, sexually explicit materials, and/or information
          pertaining to minors via computer (i.e. internet).
          ....
           Have no contact with any children under the age of 18 without the presence of
          an adult who is knowledgeable of this conviction and who has been approved by
          Defendant’s CCO.
           Do not loiter or frequent places where children congregate including, but not
          limited to, shopping malls, schools, playgrounds, and video arcades.
          ....
           Submit to periodic polygraph and plethysmograph exams at own expense at
          request of CCO or any treatment provider.

Br. of Resp’t, App. D at 4.

1
  Because Marshall’s judgment and sentence is facially invalid it is not subject to RCW 10.73.090’s
time bar.
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       The State concedes that the condition prohibiting possessing or accessing pornography is

unconstitutionally vague under State v. Bahl, 164 Wn.2d 739, 754-58, 193 P.3d 678 (2008), and

must be vacated. It also concedes that because sex offender treatment was not ordered in

Marshall’s sentence, the plethysmograph testing condition must be vacated under State v. Land,

172 Wn. App. 593, 605-06, 295 P.3d 782 (2013).

       However, Marshall does not show that any of the other conditions must be vacated. The

alcohol condition is permitted under former RCW 9.94A.700(5)(d) (2002) whether crime related

or not. The prohibitions on possessing or accessing sexually exploitive or sexually explicit

materials are not unconstitutionally vague. State v. Nguyen, 191 Wn.2d 671, 681, 425 P.3d 847

(2018). Because of the nature of his crime—taking a nine-year-old girl to his house, laying on top

of her, and attempting to take her shirt off—the restriction on contact with children, including his

own children, was within the trial court’s discretion. State v. Riles, 135 Wn.2d 326, 347, 957 P.2d

655 (1998), abrogated on other grounds by State v. Valencia, 169 Wn.2d 782, 239 P.3d 1059

(2010). The condition restricting him from frequenting places where minors congregate contains

examples of such places and therefore is not unconstitutionally vague under State v. Irwin, 191

Wn. App. 644, 655, 364 P.3d 830 (2015).2 Finally, the trial court had the discretion to order

polygraph testing. Riles, 135 Wn.2d at 342-43.

2
  We recognize that there is a split of authority as to the validity of this condition. We agree with
the dissent in State v. Wallmuller, 4 Wn. App. 2d 698, 705, 423 P.3d 282 (2018), review granted,
192 Wn.2d 1009 (2019). We also find persuasive the reasoning in the unpublished case, State v.
Starr,     49327-6-II      (Wash.        Ct.    App.       Oct.      17,      2017)     (unpublished),
http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/.

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        We remand Marshall’s judgment and sentence to the trial court with instructions to strike

the pornography and plethysmograph testing conditions. In all other respects, we deny Marshall’s

petition.

        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.

                                                            Melnick, J.

I concur:

        Glasgow, J.

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       MAXA, C.J. (dissenting in part) — I agree with the majority opinion except with regard to

the “places where children congregate” community custody condition. For the reasons stated in

this court’s opinion in State v. Wallmuller, 4 Wn. App. 2d 698, 423 P.3d 282 (2018), review

granted, 192 Wn.2d 1009 (2019), I would hold that this condition is unconstitutionally vague and

should be stricken.

                                                           Maxa, C.J.

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