Mary Ann Shirley , county attorney, argued the cause, and Carla J. Stovall , attorney general, was with her on the brief for appellee. Kenneth Mason appeals his conviction of criminal solicitation of murder. He was sentenced to 85 months' imprisonment. The appeal was transferred to this court from the Court of Appeals pursuant to K.S.A. 20-3018. Mason was a prisoner in the Greenwood County Jail.
Legal mail includes mail addressed to attorneys.
Mason's first attempt to falsely label a letter as legal mail was detected by Deputy Winfrey. Winfrey knew 510 N. Pine was a trailer, and he knew of no attorney in Eureka named Smith. He confronted Mason, who admitted that the letter was not to an attorney. When Winfrey several days later saw that Mason was sending another letter addressed to someone named Smith and marked as legal mail, he turned it over to Sergeant Soule. An employee in the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office attempted to verify that there was a Smith Law Office in San Antonio.