Legal Opinion

State v. Murdock

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided May 2, 2014No. 104,533PublishedCited by 75 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*313The opinion of the court was delivered by

Biles, J.:

Jimmy Murdock argues the district court erroneously calculated his criminal history score during a sentencing proceeding by treating two prior out-of-state convictions from 1984 and 1990 as person crimes instead of nonperson crimes. The issue is rare because these prior out-of-state offenses were committed before enactment of the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act (KSGA), K.S.A. 21-4701 et seq., and the KSGA does not expressly provide how such offenses should be classified. We conclude these convictions should be treated as nonperson offenses.…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. State v. VandervortSupreme Court of Kansas · 2003
  2. State v. ComanSupreme Court of Kansas · 2012
  3. State v. FierroSupreme Court of Kansas · 1995
  4. State v. GuderSupreme Court of Kansas · 2012
  5. State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Kansas · 2010

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3Cited by75 opinions

  1. State v. KeelSupreme Court of Kansas · 2015
  2. State v. DickeySupreme Court of Kansas · 2015
  3. State v. MurdockSupreme Court of Kansas · 2019
  4. State v. JordanSupreme Court of Kansas · 2016
  5. State v. FisherSupreme Court of Kansas · 2016

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