State v. Snelling

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Larson, J.:

This is the State’s appeal under K.S.A. 22-3601(b)(2) of the trial court’s determination that applying the public access provisions of the Kansas Offender Registration Act (Act), K.S.A. 22-4901 et seq., to 17-year-old Nathan Snelling’s conviction of indecent solicitation of a 15-year-old in violation of K.S.A. 21-3510(a)(1) constituted unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment under the authority of State v. Scott, 24 Kan. App. 2d 480, 947 P.2d 466 (1997).

The result we now reach was foretold when we granted a petition for review of the…