State v. Petersen-Beard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stegall, J.:

Henry Petersen-Beard challenges his sentence to lifetime postrelease registration as a sex offender pursuant to the Kansas Offender Registration Act (KORA), K.S.A. 22-4901 et seq., as cruel and unusual punishment in violation of § 9 of the Kansas Bill of Rights and the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Because we find that lifetime registration as a sex offender pursuant to KORA is not punishment for either Eighth *193Amendment or § 9 purposes, we reject Petersen-Beard’s argument that it is unconstitutionally cruel and/or…