State v. Cordell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nuss, C.J.:

Scott Paul Cordell challenges his 19-month prison sentence. The district court based the sentence in part upon Cordell’s criminal history score of A, which it calculated by classifying two of his 1986 Kansas juvenile burglary adjudications as person felonies. Cordell contends the court’s person felony classifications are unconstitutional because they required judicial fact- finding that went beyond merely finding the existence of a prior adjudication or the statutory elements of the prior adjudication.

We agree, based upon State v. Dickey,…