Court Opinion

ID: 9549451
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:18:50.744458+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:20:20.227220
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*99Floyd H. Coffman, District Judge, Assigned,
concurring: I concur with the majority on all issues except the time when the sentence in Pottawatomie County on aggravated sodomy should commence under K.S.A. 21-4614. The defendant was charged by the State of Kansas in both counties. Kidnapping and aggravated sodomy were charged in Riley County on August 20,1980, when he was arrested. The Riley County charge of aggravated sodomy was dismissed September 8, 1980, and was refiled by the State of Kansas on September 17, 1980, in Pottawatomie County.
Under the mandatory provisions of K.S.A. 21-4614, the date the sentence is to begin “shall be established to reflect and shall be computed as an allowance for the time which the defendant has spent incarcerated pending the disposition of the defendant’s case.” Both charges the State of Kansas eventually filed could have been prosecuted by the State in Pottawatomie County. Defendant’s mandatory rights under the statute should not be compromised by the inaction of the prosecutors of the two counties whether the delay was by design or otherwise. In my opinion the statute anticipates that credit be given on both sentences from the time he was charged by the State in Riley County. Defendant was charged by the State on September 17, 1980, in Pottawatomie County and did not plead nolo contendere to the charge in Riley County until December 8, 1980.
My interpretation of this mandatory provision in the statute (K.S.A. 21-4614) does nothing to the trial judge’s discretion to increase the sentence within the limits of the minimum and maximum sentence or to require the second sentence to be served consecutively with the other sentence.