State v. Kelly
Annotate this CaseIn 1995, Appellant pleaded guilty to first-degree felony murder and aggravated robbery for crimes Appellant committed when he was fourteen years old. Approximately twelve years later, Appellant filed a pro se motion to withdraw his guilty pleas. Appellant also argued that his aggravated robbery sentence was illegal because his juvenile adjudications were used both to certify him for adult prosecution and to compute his criminal history score. The district court denied Appellant’s motion without conducting an evidentiary hearing. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) Appellant failed to demonstrate the manifest injustice required by Kan. Stat. Ann. 22-3210(d) to withdraw his guilty pleas; and (2) Appellant’s aggravated robbery sentence, which was within the presumptive sentence for that crime based on Appellant’s criminal history score, was not illegal.
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