Court Opinion

ID: 9901066
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-11-20 22:12:47.70545+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:21:25.968304
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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
                         DIVISION ONE

STATE OF WASHINGTON,
                                                       No. 84730-9-I (consolidated with
                        Respondent.                    84731-7-I, 84732-5-I, 84733-3-I,
                                                       84734-1-I, 84735-0-I, 84736-8-I,
v.                                                     84737-6-I, 84738-4-I, 84739-2-I)

JACOB WILLIAM CARMAN,                                  DIVISION ONE

                        Appellant.                     UNPUBLISHED OPINION

        PER CURIAM — In these consolidated appeals, Jacob William Carman filed

notices of appeal challenging the imposition of $500 Victim Penalty Assessments

(VPAs) imposed in judgments and sentences entered in ten separate superior court

causes. When Carman was sentenced on these matters in 2022, the VPA was a

mandatory condition of all sentences. Former RCW 7.68.035 (2018). In 2023, the

legislature added a subsection to RCW 7.68.035 that prohibits courts from imposing the

VPA on indigent defendants as defined in RCW 10.01.160(3). State v. Ellis, ___ Wn.

App. 2d ___, 530 P.3d 1048, 1055 (2023). The State does not dispute that Carman is

indigent and concedes that this matter should be remanded to strike the VPA from

Carman’s judgments and sentences. 1

        We accept the State’s concession and remand to the superior court to strike the

        1 Carman also challenges language in each of the underlying judgments and sentences providing

that interest will accrue on any restitution imposed. The legislature also amended RCW 10.82.090 after
Carmen was sentenced to allow the sentencing court to waive interest on restitution upon consideration
of several factors, including indigency. However, the sentencing court did not order restitution in
connection with any of the underlying matters, therefore the interest provision has no effect and it is
unnecessary to remand for reconsideration or amendment of that provision.
No. 84730-9-I/2

VPA provisions from the underlying judgments and sentences.

                                FOR THE COURT:

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