Court Opinion

ID: 9544943
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:03:48.16916+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:13:48.570252
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Andersen, C.J.
(concurring in the result)—I have serious doubts as to whether this case really involves a "manifest error affecting a constitutional right" at all, as the majority seems to conclude. The most plausible reason the defend*15ant did not raise the double jeopardy issue in the trial court is that whether he was convicted of one crime or two was immaterial to him since, having received concurrent sentences, he would serve the same term in either event. Review of the issue having been accepted, however, I agree that resentencing for a single crime is required based on the established principle that
The crime of rape by force and the crime of rape because of the age of the victim, are defined, it is true, in separate sections of the statute, but this does not make a single act which is violative of both sections, separate crimes.
State v. Powers, 152 Wash. 155, 160, 277 P. 377 (1929).
Reconsideration denied October 18, 1982.
Review denied by Supreme Court January 7, 1983.