Personal Restraint Petition Of James Hinton ( 2013 )

..CURT OF APPEALS Pi'.'
STATE OF WASHIMUT:::
2013 AUG 19 AH S'-Wo
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
IN THE MATTER OF THE No. 69160-1-1
PERSONAL RESTRAINT OF:
DIVISION ONE
JAMES WILLARD HINTON,
UNPUBLISHED OPINION
Petitioner.
FILED: August 19, 2013
Per Curiam. In 1999, James Hinton was convicted by a jury of murder in the
second degree, attempted murder in the second degree, and assault in the first
degree. Reading the judgment and sentence in conjunction with the information, it is
clear that the attempted murder and assault counts pertain to the same assault upon
a single victim. Hinton has filed this personal restraint petition contending that the
sentencing court's failure to vacate the merged assault conviction violates double
jeopardy.
The State concedes that Hinton's claim is not subject to the time bar under
RCW 10.73.100(3). See In re Pers. Restraint of Strandv, 171 Wn.2d 817, 820, 256
P.3d 1159 (2011). And although the judgment and sentence provides that the
lesser assault conviction "merges" with the attempted murder conviction and the
court did not impose sentence on the merged assault count, the State further
concedes that the assault conviction must be vacated and any reference to it must
be removed from the judgmentand sentence. See State v. Turner, 169 Wn.2d 448,
464, 238 P.3d 461 (2010) ("To assure that double jeopardy proscriptions are
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carefully observed, a judgment and sentence must not include any reference to the
vacated conviction[.]"). We accept the concession.
The personal restraint petition is accordingly granted. The case is remanded
to the trial court to vacate Hinton's assault conviction and redact the judgment and
sentence deleting reference to that conviction.
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