Chamberlain v. Buhrman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Six, J.:

This original action in mandamus is a statutory interpretation case. We are presented with a first impression issue arising from the qualifications imposed by the legislature on candidates for the office of sheriff. Our resolution of the relationship of three statutes, K.S.A. 19-801b(a) (qualifications for the office of sheriff), K.S.A. 19-826 (mandatory fingerprinting requirement for candidates for sheriff), and K.S.A. 1990 Supp. 12-4516 (ex-pungement of convictions), will control the disposition of this issue.

William H. Chamberlain, who…