State v. Albright

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 124,319 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. WILLIAM D. ALBRIGHT, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. Where a defendant seeks sentence modification in postconviction proceedings, a court lacks jurisdiction and should dismiss the matter unless there is a statute that authorizes the specific requested relief. 2. The rule of law declared in Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99, 133 S. Ct. 2151,

186 L. Ed. 2d 314

(2013), that the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires any fact that increases a sentence beyond the mandatory minimum to be…