State v. Jeffries
Annotate this CaseIn 1987, Appellant pled no contest to felony murder and one count of aggravated robbery and pled guilty to three counts of aggravated robbery. The district court imposed a controlling prison term of life without the possibility of parole for thirty years. In 2014, Appellant filed a motion to correct an illegal sentence, arguing that State v. Murdock required that his sentence be converted to a guidelines sentence under the 1993 version of the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act (KSGA). The district court denied the motion. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Appellant’s sentence was ineligible for retroactive application of the KSGA today, and therefore, his 1987 sentence was not illegal.
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