State v. Armbrust

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Allegrucci, J.:

Each of the defendants in these consolidated cases, Dale Armbrust, Brian Thompson, Theresa Brown, and Timothy Baumann, was convicted before 1999 of crimes that required registration as a sex offender. When they were convicted of the underlying offenses, violation of the registration requirement was a misdemeanor. In the present cases, the State charged each defendant with violating the Kansas Offender Registration Act, K.S.A. 22-4901 et seq., by fading to comply with mandatory periodic address verification. The penalty for violation of…