Opinion ID: 2630956
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Heading: Aggravated Indecent Liberties with a Child as Lesser Included Offense of Rape

Text: Counts 24 and 34 of the second amended complaint alleged that Magallanez raped S.S. The trial court instructed the jury on aggravated indecent liberties with a child as a lesser included offense of rape for these counts. For both counts, the jury acquitted Magallanez of rape and convicted him of aggravated indecent liberties. Magallanez argues that the district court lacked jurisdiction to convict him of aggravated indecent liberties because aggravated indecent liberties is not a lesser included offense of rape. See State v. Belcher, 269 Kan. 2, 8, 4 P.3d 1137 (2000). The State concedes the lack of jurisdiction. Magallanez' convictions of aggravated indecent liberties as to S.S. must be reversed. He cannot be retried on the greater charge, as conviction of what the jury believed, based on erroneous instruction, was a lesser charge functions as a de facto acquittal of the greater. See State v. McCorgary, 218 Kan. 358, 368, 543 P.2d 952 (1975).