State v. Riolo

Arnold-Burger, J.:

When a person is convicted of a sexually violent crime and he or she has a prior Kansas conviction for a sexually violent crime or a conviction for a comparable offense in another state, the court is required to double the person’s prison sentence. This rule is known as the persistent sex offender rule. See K.S.A. 21-4704(j). George Riolo pled guilty to two different charges, both of which constituted sexually violent offenses under Kansas law. The State asserted that, due to a prior conviction in another state for a comparable crime, this special sentencing rule should…