STATE v. HUMPHREY

Nos. 39348-1-I, 39349-9-I.

959 P.2d 681 (1998)

91 Wash.App. 677

STATE of Washington, Respondent, v. Donald HUMPHREY, Appellant. STATE of Washington, Respondent, v. Robert Phillip PAYNE, Defendant, and Ruvin Azriel Munden, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

July 20, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Broman, Nielsen, Broman & Associates, Lindsay Brown, Seattle, for Appellants.

Erin Riley, King County Deputy Prosecutor, Seattle, for Respondent.


GROSSE, Judge.

The statutory victim assessment penalty is imposed upon a conviction for a crime. It is the fact of conviction not the fact of committing a particular crime that triggers the assessment. Therefore, the legislatively mandated increase in that penalty does not implicate constitutional principles of due process or prohibitions against ex post facto laws despite the fact that the increase occurred after the time each of these defendants committed...

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