State v. McCray

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 125,798 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. XAVIER LEE MCCRAY, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. Before May 23, 2019, the revised Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act (KSGA), K.S.A. 2018 Supp. 21-6801 et seq., directed sentencing judges to classify an out-of-state conviction as a nonperson crime if it was not comparable to a Kansas crime. If there was a comparable Kansas crime and the Legislature classified it as a person crime, the sentencing judge should classify the out-of-state conviction as a person crime. The sentencing judge considering the…