State v. Futrell

Atcheson, J.:

This case plunges us into yet another controversy on how district courts should fashion restitution awards imposed on convicted criminals. A majority of this panel departs from our colleagues’ view in State v. Miller, 51 Kan. App. 2d 869, Syl. ¶ 2, 355 P.3d 716 (2015), and holds that a defendant convicted of burglary may be ordered to pay restitution for property stolen during the course of the brealc-in—a result that seems both eminently logical and fully consistent with K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 21-6607(c)(2) by imposing restitution on a defendant for any loss caused by his or her…