Joshua Rhoades, right, confers with his attorney Don Blair today in Lewis County Superior Court.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A former Centralia man was sentenced again this morning for a 2013 assault case in which the appeals court said the judge should not have imposed time outside the standard sentencing range.
Joshua Rhoades was convicted by a jury of second-degree assault for a fight on a Centralia street in which a 17-year-old boy was knocked unconscious. Rhoades, then 32 years old, was given nearly the 10 year maximum, believed to be allowed because of a special gang finding by the jury.
The Washington State Court of Appeals Division II last year concluded prosecutors didn’t give Rhoades adequate notice of the aggravating circumstance they alleged. The case was sent back to Lewis County Superior Court.
Lewis County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead this morning asked Judge James Lawler to give Rhoades 70 months, the high end of the stand sentencing range.
Defense attorney Don Blair offered reasons he hoped the judge would go lower. Blair said his client has undertaken a series of courses while incarcerated.
Neither lawyer handled the case when it went to trial.
Judge Lawler said he couldn’t entirely ignore the efforts Rhoades has made in bettering himself.
He imposed a new sentence of 65 months along with a 12-month enhancement for a deadly weapon. He also ordered that Rhoades would be on community custody for 18 months after his release from prison.
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For background, read “Wrong “gang aggravator” gets Centralia man new, shorter sentence” from Wednesday February 4, 2015, here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Jamie Anderson,
When people like you go on your rants about me. You make just that much more popular.
Bo Rupert, as much as you try, and even being a self proclaimed “celebrity” sadly your name will be forgotten eventually, and you sir will never become a “L.C.L” “LEWIS COUNTY LEGEND” just sayin. Stay on point.
How am I a nuisance? You care to explain the stones you throw??????
Your a nuisance to society also……those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones!!!
Now this really upsets me Joshua “Spooker” Rhodes couldn’t be a more deserving person of 10 years. He has been a gang banging drug dealing scumbag his whole life. He was at one time the head of LVL. He is nothing but a nuisance to society. He has literally been one of the biggest criminals in Lewis County.