Blakely‘s impact in the other Washington

With a big week ahead as the folks in Washington DC cogitate about how to deal with Blakely in the federal system, we should recall that it was the other Washington which got this whole Blakely ball rolling. And, proving the impact will be consequential there, too, here’s an article from Washington state detailing a case of a “businessman who stole $215,000 from his ailing stepmother [who] will be released from prison about 2.5 years early” due to Blakely problems in the extraordinary sentence he originally received.