TACOMA – The Washington State Supreme Court has knocked more than 20 years off the prison sentence Zyion Houston-Sconiers received for the 2012 armed robberies of his fellow Tacoma teenagers’ Halloween candy.
The News Tribune reports Pierce County Superior Court Judge John Hickman exercised discretion he didn’t believe he had in 2013 when he originally sentenced the 22-year-old Houston-Sconiers.
Hickman originally sent Houston-Sconiers and another teenage offender to prison for decades because of firearm-sentencing enhancements attached to their offenses.
Houston-Sconiers was originally given a 31-year prison term, but now will serve just four more years to go with the four and a half he has already completed.
On Halloween night in 2012, Houston-Sconiers and Treson Lee Roberts are accused of carrying a revolver around Tacoma streets to rob teenagers of candy, cellphones and other items.
