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BROWN, J. - The Department of Corrections petitions under RCW 9.94A.585(7)
for review of an amended order revoking Gabriel Lee Bercier's residential treatment
based DOSA1 sentence and imposing a standard range prison sentence without credit
for community custody time served. Because RCW 9.94A.660(7)(d)'s plain language
provides credit for "any time previously served under this section," including community
custody served in the form of a residential treatment-based DOSA sentence, we grant
1 The drug offender sentencing alternative is an either prison-based or
residential treatment-based alternative sentence available for drug offenders in some
cases. See RCW 9.94A.660, .662, .664.
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the department's post-sentence review petition.
FACTS
In June 2012, Mr. Bercier pleaded guilty to methamphetamine possession. The
sentencing court imposed 24 months' community custody in the form of a residential
treatment-based DOSA sentence. In January 2013, after he failed to comply with
residential treatment, the sentencing court issued an order revoking his DOSA sentence
and imposing a standard range prison sentence under RCW 9.94A.660(7)(c). The
order included a notation prohibiting Mr. Bercier from receiving credit for community
custody time served. Without success, the department contacted the court and parties
seeking an amended order striking this notation. In April 2013, the sentencing court
issued an amended order retaining the notation while adding a post-revocation
community custody term.
The department petitioned this court for post-sentence review under RCW
9.94A.585(7). This court requested supplemental briefing on the applicability of In re
Post-Sentence Review of Combs, 176 Wn. App. 112,308 P.3d 763 (2013). After
considering the supplemental briefing we decide the department's petition on statutory
interpretation grounds.
ANALYSIS
The issue is whether the sentencing court erred by prohibiting Mr. Bercier from
receiving credit for community custody time served. The department contends the
sentencing court erred by disregarding RCW 9.94A.660(7)(d)'s plain language providing
credit for "any time previously served under this section," including community custody
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served in the form of a residential treatment-based DOSA sentence. 2 Mr. Bercier
agrees. The State disagrees, construing subsection (7)(d) as providing credit solely for
jail or prison time served.
Upon the department's post-sentence review petition, we review the sentencing
court's decision solely for legal error. RCW 9.94A.585(7); RAP 16.18(a). Statutory
interpretation is a legal issue we examine de novo. Multicare Med. Ctr. v. Oep't of Soc.
& Health SeNs., 114 Wn.2d 572,582 n.15, 790 P.2d 124 (1990). When interpreting a
statute, we must "discern and implement" our legislature's intent. State v. J.P., 149
Wn.2d 444,450,69 P.3d 318 (2003); see State ex rei. Great N. Ry. v. R.R. Comm'n of
Wash., 52 Wash. 33, 36, 100 P. 184 (1909). If the statute's meaning is plain, we must
effectuate it as an expression of our legislature's intent. Oep't of Ecology v. Campbell &
Gwinn, LLC, 146 Wn.2d 1,9,43 P.3d 4 (2002); Walker v. City of Spokane, 62 Wash.
312,318, 113 P. 775 (1911).
If an offender qualifies, the sentencing court may impose community custody in
the form of a residential treatment-based DOSA sentence. See RCW 9.94A.660, .664.
If an offender violates DOSA conditions or requirements, the sentencing court "may
order the offender to serve a term of total confinement within the standard range of the
offender's current offense at any time. during the period of community custody." RCW
9. 94A.660(7)(c). Where the sentencing court chooses to impose a standard range
2 In hindsight, the department might have avoided this dispute by construing Mr.
Bercier's residential treatment-based DOSA sentence as total confinement. See RCW
9.94A.030(51) (defining total confinement as "confinement inside the physical
boundaries of a facility or institution operated or utilized under contract by the state or
any other unit of government for twenty-four hours a day").
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prison sentence under subsection (7)(c), the offender "shall receive credit for any time
previously served under this section." RCW 9.94A.660(7)(d). We agree with the
department that RCW 9.94A.660(7)(d),s plain language provides credit for community
custody served in the form of a residential treatment-based DOSA sentence. The
sentencing court erred by prohibiting Mr. Bercier from receiving credit for community
custody time served.
Additionally, Mr. Bercier argues the sentencing court lacked statutory authority to
revoke his DOSA sentence and impose a post-revocation community custody term.
The department did not raise this issue in its petition. An offender may not raise a new
issue in response to a post-sentence review petition; instead, the offender must raise
the new issue in a collateral attack, if at all. In re Post-Sentence Review of Wandell,
_ Wn. App. _,311 P.3d 28,31 (2013). Therefore, we do not reach Mr. Bercier'S
additional argument.
Finally, the department moves to supplement the record with exhibits
documenting how it would assign Mr. Bercier credit for DOSA sentence time served.
Even without the exhibits, the record is sufficiently complete for us to decide the
department's petition on its merits. See RAP 9.10, 16.18(d). Therefore, we deny the
department's motion.
Motion to supplement record denied. Post-sentence review petition granted.
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Remanded with instructions to provide Mr. Bercier credit for community custody
served in the form of a residential treatment-based DOSA sentence.
Brown, J.
WE CONCUR:
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