Opinion ID: 2335407
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Heading: Proof of Prior Juvenile Convictions

Text: Harris argues that because he did not have a right to a jury trial when he obtained the juvenile charges that were used in sentencing, the prior juvenile adjudications must have been pleaded in the charging document and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt because they were facts increasing the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum. This exact argument was considered and denied by this court in State v. Fischer, 288 Kan. 470, 472-76, 203 P.3d 1269 (2009) (juvenile adjudications final on June 20, 2008, the date this court filed In re L.M., 286 Kan. 460, 186 P.3d 164 [2008], which permits juvenile jury trials, may be included in an offender's criminal history score); State v. Hitt, 273 Kan. 224, 236, 42 P.3d 732 (2002), cert. denied 537 U.S. 1104, 123 S.Ct. 962, 154 L.Ed.2d 772 (2003) (Juvenile adjudications need not be charged in an indictment or proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt before they can be used in calculating a defendant's criminal history score under the KSGA.). Harris' presentence investigation report indicates he had three felony convictions on his juvenile recordtwo from 2004 and one from 2006. The convictions occurred before the L.M. decision, and he was not entitled to have those convictions referred to a jury prior to sentencing. Harris provides no additional authority or facts not already included in these previous decisions that would warrant reconsidering the issue. Affirmed.