State v. Dunn

Stephen Montreal Dunn appeals the sentence the Montgomery County District Court imposed for his conviction of rape. Dunn claims the district court erred because it imposed lifetime postrelease supervision, electronic monitoring of that supervision, and it failed to grant him good time credit. For the first time on appeal, the State claims the district court imposed an illegal sentence by departing more than 50 percent from a standard guideline sentence under the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act (KSGA). The State is correct. The sentence must be vacated.

Dunn is also partially correct. The…