State v. Tafoya

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stegall, J.:

Kenneth. J. Tafoya was convicted by a juiy in 2008 of one count of driving under the influence (DUI). Tafoya had three prior DUI convictions, all occurring in the 1990s. When Ta-foya was sentenced in 2008, Kansas DUI sentencing statutes provided for a lifetime lookback period for purposes of classifying the current conviction as a second conviction, third conviction, etc. See K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 8-1567(o)(3). Including his three prior convictions from the 1990s, Tafoyas 2008 conviction was properly classified as a fourth DUI, and Tafoya was…