State v. Kuehn

NATURE OF CASE

In two consolidated appeals, the State appeals the order of the district court for Stanton County made in the combined separate proceedings filed by Mark D. Kuehn in which he challenged the validity of two prior felony convictions for purposes of penalty enhancement under the habitual criminal statute. The district court concluded that the two prior convictions were invalid for penalty enhancement purposes because there was no affirmative showing in the records of the prior cases that Kuehn had expressly waived his privilege against self-incrimination when he entered guilty…