State v. McFeeters

Hill, J.;

Dennis McFeeters, Jr., admitted to the district court that he had violated certain conditions of his probation order. The court revoked his probation and sent him to prison. While we agree with the district court that his probation was ripe for revocation, the trouble we have with the court’s order is that it did not set forthwith particularity why an intermediate sanction, normally imposed in such a situation, was inappropriate here. The law, K.S.A. 2014 Supp. 22-3716(c)(9), requires such findings. Therefore, we must remand the matter to the district court for a new dispositional…