State v. Tiscorino
State v. Tiscorino
Opinion of the Court
¶1 Marsial Tiscorino appealed his 1996 Franklin County conviction of second degree felony murder involving the predicate felony of second degree assault. This court remanded the case to superior court on a sentencing issue. State v. Tiscorino, 124 Wn. App. 476, 98 P.3d 529 (2004), review granted and remanded, 153 Wn.2d 1017 (2005). Mr. Tiscorino then petitioned for review of that decision in the Washington Supreme Court. On March 1, 2005, the Supreme Court granted the petition for review and remanded the appeal to this court “for reconsideration
¶3 After entry of our decision in Mr. Tiscorino’s appeal and pending the consideration of his petition for review of that decision in the Supreme Court, Hinton was decided and became final on December 14, 2004. In Hinton, the court held that the decision in Andress applied retroactively. The holdings in Andress and Hinton entitle Mr. Tiscorino to relief.
¶4 Accordingly, we vacate Mr. Tiscorino’s conviction of second degree felony murder and remand his case to the Franklin County Superior Court for further lawful proceedings consistent with Andress and Hinton. Hinton, 152 Wn.2d at 861 (citing Andress, 147 Wn.2d at 617 n.5).
Following the Andress decision, the legislature amended the second degree felony murder statute, effective February 12, 2003, to expressly declare that assault is included among the predicate crimes under the second degree felony murder statute. Laws of 2003, ch. 3, § 2.
By separate order filed today, the earlier opinion of this court was withdrawn. The court notes that in subsection B of the earlier opinion, it did not address the application of RCW 13.40.285 to the issue of whether the superior court erred when it ordered Mr. Tiscorino to serve his sentence for second degree felony murder consecutive to his separate sentence for a juvenile court adjudication for second degree robbery. If the issue arises in the superior court proceedings on
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