State v. Burns

BERREY, Judge.

A jury convicted the appellant of attempted forcible rape, armed criminal action and assault in the first degree. The trial judge imposed consecutive sentences *290of forty-four years, fifty years and life imprisonment, respectively.

The appellant was nineteen years old at the time of the assaults and was possessed of “brutal strength.” He had played tackle on his high school football team. He had moved to Kansas City from Neodesha, Kansas, and was attending DeVry Institute.

On the night of December 1, 1986, he entered the “Inside Story” bookstore, located in the Red Bridge Shopping…