Garcia v. Ball

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnson, J.:

George Michael Garcia retained criminal defense attorney, Charles Ball, to represent him in a probation revocation proceeding. The district court accepted Garcia s stipulation to violating probation, revoked his probation, and remanded Garcia to the custody of the Kansas Department of Corrections to serve his originally imposed prison term. But the journal entry of sentencing erroneously directed drat Garcia was subject to postrelease supervision following his probation revocation, which error ultimately led to Garcia serving more time in…