State v. Armendariz

Summary

The Washington Supreme Court held that RCW 9.94A.505(8) of the Sentencing Reform Act is an independent grant of trial court authority to impose crime-related prohibitions, including no-contact orders, as part of any felony sentence, and that such orders may run up to the statutory maximum for the defendant's crime rather than being confined to the community custody term. Relying on the statute's plain language, the legislature's declaration that its 2000 reorganization made no substantive changes, and the Sentencing Guidelines Commission's consistent interpretation, the court upheld the five-year no-contact order imposed as part of Armendariz's third-degree assault sentence. Review had been granted solely on this sentencing-authority question.