State v. Fowler

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This case involves consolidated direct appeals by the State in two criminal cases taken pursuant to K.S.A.'22-3602. Each case raises an identical question of law pertaining to the authority of a district court to order jail time credit on a defendant’s sentence under authority of K.S.A. 21-4614 for the time a defendant resided under court order in a community corrections residential center. In case No. 57,683, the defendant, Robert Fowler, filed a cross-appeal based upon the refusal of the district court to award him jail credit on his…