State v. CLINT L.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Abbott, J.:

The issue in this case is whether the trial court erred in dismissing the aggravated escape from custody charges under K.S.A. 21-3810(a) because the respondents were not being held “upon a charge or conviction of felony” when they escaped from custody. The respondents were being held in the juvenile detention facility in Sedgwick County. Some of the respondents had been adjudicated as juvenile offenders and some were being held pending juvenile adjudication hearings.

The juvenile proceedings arose out of acts committed by the respondents…