State v. Taylor
Annotate this CaseIn 1988, Defendant was sentenced to terms of imprisonment for aggravated robbery and first-degree murder. The sentences were ordered to run consecutive to each other and to the sentences not yet imposed in another case pending against Defendant - 87 CR 412. Twenty-three years later, Defendant filed a pro se motion to correct an illegal sentence, claiming a speedy trial violation and that the sentencing court improperly ordered his sentences to run consecutive to the sentences not yet imposed in 87 CR 412. The district court summarily denied Defendant’s motion. The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part, holding (1) Defendant’s speedy trial claim could not be raised in a motion to correct an illegal sentence; and (2) the sentencing court erred by running the sentences in this case consecutive to his sentences in 87 CR 412 because those sentences did not yet exist, but because Kan. Stat. Ann. 21-4608(4) required consecutive sentences in this case if Defendant committed the crimes while on release in 87 CR 412, and because the court could not determine from the record whether Defendant was on release at the time he committed these offenses, the case must be remanded.
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