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      IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

                                             DIVISION II

STATE OF WASHINGTON,                                                   No. 43080 1 II
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                              Respondent/
                           Cross -Appellant,

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                                  Appellant/
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         JOHANSON J. —A. .appeals
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and a $100 crime victim penalty assessment as part of a deferred disposition. The State cross

appeals the juvenile court's denial of its request to impose a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

collection fee. We hold that RCW 13. 0.
                                 127(
                                    5 does
                                    4 ) not authorize the juvenile court to impose

detention, the $ 00 crime victim penalty assessment or the DNA collection fee. Accordingly, we
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reverse, vacate and remand for correction of the deferred       disposition   order to delete the order of
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t It is appropriate to provide some confidentiality in this case. Accordingly, it is hereby ordered
that initials will be used in the case caption and in the body of the opinion to identify the juvenile
appellant involved.
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    RCW 13. 0.
        127(  5 provides:
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       Any juvenile granted a deferral of disposition under this section shall be placed
       under community supervision. The court may impose any conditions of
        supervision that it deems appropriate including posting a probation bond.
       Payment of restitution under RCW 13. 0.shall be a condition of community
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         supervision under this   section.
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detention and the crime victim penalty assessment fee and we affirm the juvenile court's decision

not to impose a DNA collection fee.
                                                FACTS

         The State charged A. .with residential burglary, third degree theft and possession of a
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controlled substance. On January 20, 2012, he entered guilty pleas in open court to the charges.

On February 10, 2012, the juvenile court entered a deferred disposition order on all three pleas.

         The juvenile court imposed two deferred disposition conditions to which A. .objected:
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one day of detention and payment of a $
                                      100 crime victim penalty assessment. A. .appeals
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the   imposition of   these conditions.   The State cross appeals the juvenile court's denial of its

request that it assess a $ 00 DNA collection fee.
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                                              ANALYSIS

                                          I. Standard of Review

         This appeal requires us to interpret the deferred disposition statute, RCW 13. 0.
                                                                                    127.
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Statutory interpretation is a question of law reviewed.de novo. State v. I..160 Wn. App.
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660, 665, 248 P. d 145 (2011).Our' bjective is to ascertain the legislature's intent. IX C.,
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Wn.    App. at   665.   We first examine the statutory language and, if the language is clear, we

derive the statute's meaning from that plain language. I..160 Wn. App. at 665.
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    A commissioner of this court initially considered this appeal as a motion on the merits under
RAP 18. 4 and then referred it to a panel of judges.
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  The court's order imposing one day of detention does not specify the crime to which it
attached.   At the deferred disposition hearing' the juvenile court also sentenced A. .for an
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unrelated malicious mischief adjudication. It gave him seven days' credit for time served on that
offense, out of eight days he had served. The parties discussed applying the remaining one day
of credit to the controlled substance possession count. But the record also suggests that the one
day of credit was applied to the burglary count.
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                                           II. Confinement

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         A. .contends that RCW 13. 0.
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                                  5 does
                                  4 ) not provide for a term of confinement. We

agree.

         In State v. I..we recently held that confinement is not a "condition[] supervision"
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authorized by the deferred disposition statute. 160 Wn. App. at 669. We stated that "
                                                                                    the plain

language of RCW 13. 0.does not allow juvenile courts to impose detention as a condition of
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community supervision for deferred dispositions.i See also former RCW 13. 0.
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                                                                      020(
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20 10)omitting confinement as an authorized community custody term).
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         The State attempts to distinguish I.. because the juvenile in I.. did not enter a
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guilty plea before receiving a deferred disposition and, instead, stipulated to the truth of the facts

in the police report. RCW 13. 0. The State contends here that because A. .pleaded
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guilty, the court was authorized to sentence A. .to confinement in the same way it could for
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any other crime to which     a   juvenile pleads guilty   or   is   adjudicated guilty. This argument is

unavailing.

         RCW 13. 0. (b)provide that a deferred disposition may be based on a
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stipulation by the juvenile to the admissibility of facts in a police report acknowledging that the

4 In I..although the matter was technically moot because the juvenile had served the
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detention imposed, we nevertheless considered the merits of the appeal because it presented an
issue ofpublic interest. 160 Wn. App. at 664. Because it appears that this practice may be
continuing, we address the merits of the parties' appeal.

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report will be entered and used to support a finding of guilt"if the juvenile does not comply

with deferred disposition terms and also on a guilty plea. For example, the statute permits the

juvenile court to "continue the case for disposition for a period of one year from the date the

juvenile is found guilty."RCW 13. 0.
                              127(
                                 2 emphasis
                                 4 ) ( added). And RCW 13. 0.
                                                       127(
                                                          4 states:
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Following the stipulation, acknowledgment, waiver, and entry of a finding or plea of guilt, the

court shall defer entry of an order of disposition of the juvenile."Emphasis added.)
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       Accordingly, A. .guilty pleas did not remove his case from the purview of RCW
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127
13. 0.and the juvenile court was not authorized to confine A. . Although he has already
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served the detention term, we reverse and vacate the order of detention and remand for correction

of the deferred disposition order. Contra I..160 Wn. App. at 669.
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                               III. Crime Victim Penalty Assessment

       In addition to confinement, the juvenile court imposed a $100 crime victim penalty

assessment. A. .relies on State v. M. ., Division One case that struck down this fee in
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deferred   dispositions. 148 Wn. App. 968, 201 P. d 413 (2009); see State v. Y1, 94 Wn.
                                                3             but

App. 919, 922, 973 P. d 50309 assuming crime victim penalty assessment was authorized
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but concluding that juvenile court lacked jurisdiction to enforce payment after deferred

disposition period expired).

       M. . examined the language of RCW 7.8.
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penalty shall be imposed when "any juvenile is adjudicated of any offense in any juvenile

offense disposition under Title 13 RCW."148 Wn. App. at 969. It rejected the State's argument

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that the "adjudicationthe finding of guiltis the event that triggers imposition of a victim
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penalty assessment." M. ., Wn. App. at 971. Rather, it concluded that the phrase "in any
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juvenile offense disposition" means a "final settlement of the case." MC.,148 Wn. App. at

971 72.
    -      Because final disposition is deferred under RCW 13. 0.meaning, "he actual
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disposition will occur at some future time,"a crime victim penalty assessment cannot be

imposed when disposition is deferred. MC., Wn. App. at 972.
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         We agree with Division One's holding in M. . that a deferred disposition is not yet a
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juvenile offense disposition" under RCW 7.8. because the actual disposition has not
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occurred. Accordingly, we reverse and vacate the juvenile court's imposition of the crime victim

penalty assessment and remand for correction of the deferred disposition order.

                                     IV. State's Cross Appeal

         The State appeals the juvenile court's failure to impose a $ 00 DNA collection fee. We
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affirm the juvenile court's denial of the State's request to impose this fee.

         The DNA collection fee statute provides: "Every sentence imposed for a crime specified

    S.
    A. .moves to strike the cross appeal due to an untimely notice.
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         The superior court entered the deferred disposition order on February 10, 2012. A. .
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filed a notice of appeal on February 15, 2012. The State filed a notice of cross appeal on March
5, 2012. RAP 5. (f)  2 provides that such a notice be filed " within. he later of ( )14 days after
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service of the notice filed by the other party, or (2) time within which notice must be given as
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provided in sections (a), ( or (e)."
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                               d)          The State filed the notice of cross appeal within 30 days
after the entry of the deferred disposition order and thus within the time limit as provided in RAP
a).
5. (Accordingly,it is timely and we deny A. .
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    We note one reported case addressing DNA collection in the context of a deferred disposition,
but it did not address whether a juvenile court had statutory authority to impose the DNA
collection fee. State v. J. .,165 Wn. App. 570, 576 77, 265 P. d 991 ( 2011) examining
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whether juvenile court had the authority to order DNA collection after juvenile's term of
community supervision expired).
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in RCW 43. 3.must include
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         4                              a    fee of   one   hundred dollars. "    RCW 43. 3. Thus, the
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DNA collection fee is part of the "sentence"a trial court imposes on an adult or juvenile for

specified crimes. RCW 43. 3.
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          Division One also discussed the parallels between "disposition" and "sentencing" in

                                                                        disposition." 148
 C and concluded that "sentencing" is included within the definition of "
M. .,

Wn. App. at 972 (citing BLACK's LAW DICTIONARY 471 (6 ed. 1990) for the definition of
disposition" as "the sentencing         or    other   final   settlement   of a criminal   case ").   M. . cited to
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State v. C. . which acknowledged that "a juvenile offender who receives a deferred
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disposition    is never sentenced."      107 Wn. App. 591, 595 96, 27 P. d 660 (2001) examining
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court's authority to seal a juvenile record of a deferred disposition).

          M. . and C. . support the conclusion that to defer disposition is to delay the
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sentencing or other final settlement" of a juvenile criminal matter. M. ., Wn. App. at 972;
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H.,
C. .107 Wn. App. at 596. Consequently, we hold that because the DNA collection fee under
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RCW 43. 3.accrues at " entencing," juvenile court cannot impose the fee if the juvenile
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court    defers   disposition. Accordingly, we affirm the juvenile court's decision denying the

imposition of a DNA collection fee in A. .
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          We reverse, vacate; and remand for correction of the juvenile court's deferred disposition

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 The related DNA collection statute provides that "[ very adult or juvenile individual convicted
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of a felony"must submit a DNA sample. RCW 43. 3.We note that the State appeals
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only    the failure to   impose   the DNA fee.
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order imposing one day of detention and the $100 crime victim penalty assessment and we

affirm its denial of the imposition of the DNA collection fee.

       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

040,
2.6.it is so ordered.
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                                                                 Johanson, J.

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