State v. Hart

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beier, J.:

Defendant Randy Dean Hart was convicted by a jury of two counts of indecent liberties with a child. This case arises on petitions for review from both parties after the Court of Appeals affirmed Hart’s convictions and sentences, in State v. Hart, 44 Kan. App. 2d 986, 242 P.3d 1230 (2010).

Hart raised eight issues in his brief to the Court of Appeals, including a challenge to the district judge’s admission of prior bad acts evidence under the 2008 version of K.S.A. 60-455. Although the panel concluded that Hart’s K.S.A. 60-455 challenge was not…