State v. Roseborough

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wahl, J.:

The State appeals, on a question reserved, the trial court’s retroactive application of the 1996 amendments to K.S.A. 21-4705 of the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act (KSGA) to an offender who committed crimes and was sentenced prior to July 1, 1993, for the purposes of determining eligibility for sentence conversion.

Defendant, Valjean Roseborough, was convicted of and sentenced for three crimes, all prior to 1993. In Case No. 89-CR-648, Roseborough was convicted in Sedgwick County of two counts of forgery and received a suspended sentence.…