State v. Hilton

This court accepted this case on the petition for review filed by defendant Heather Page Hilton for the specific purpose of deciding whether both the first and second of Hilton’s two consecutive 12-month probation terms could be revoked as a result of a violation that occurred during the first 12 months. A panel of our Court of Appeals had affirmed the district court’s revocation of both of Hilton’s probation terms. State v. Hilton, 49 Kan. App. 2d 586, 311 P.3d 1161 (2013).

On the way to the panel’s ruling, the Court of Appeals judges left for another day the predicate issue of whether the…