Court Opinion

ID: 9627989
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:02:39.559428+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:06:54.918086
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Larson, J.,
dissenting:
I disagree with the holding of the majority that we have jurisdiction to consider this appeal.
It is a well-settled rule that when an issue is neither briefed nor argued on appeal, that issue is deemed to have been abandoned. State v. Pratt, 255 Kan. 767, Syl. ¶ 4, 876 P.2d 1390 (1994); State v. Mims, 222 Kan. 335, Syl. ¶ 6,564 P.2d 531 (1977). It has further been our rule that when a defendant in a criminal case asserts a claim of error and withdraws the same from the court’s consideration, the claim of error is deemed abandoned and cannot be reasserted as the basis for a second appeal. State v. Edwards, 260 Kan. 95, 917 P.2d 1322 (1996).
Harris requested sentence modification. His request was denied. He appealed but abandoned the issue on appeal, which had the effect of having the issue determined adversely to him. I would not allow him to keep his modification request alive as the basis for a later appeal after he allowed, by his own actions, the identical issue to be resolved against him.
My views on this issue are fully set forth in my dissent in State v. Hervey, 19 Kan. App. 2d 498, 506, 873 P.2d 188, rev. denied 255 Kan. 1005 (1994), which views I thought were originally recognized in State v. Smith, 254 Kan. 16, 864 P.2d 1208 (1992), and became our rule in State v. Waterbury, 258 Kan. 614, 907 P.2d 858 (1995).
Under the clear holding of Smith and Waterbary, the 120-day window of K.S.A. 21-4603(d)(l) and (2) is not opened a second time when the first motion to modify is requested, denied, and appealed from, and that appeal is affirmed. The situation here appears identical to me, for the motion to modify was requested, denied, and appealed from, and that appeal was resolved by the abandonment of the issue. The effect in both cases is the same. *787and we should apply the Smith and Waterbury rules to both situations.
I would find the court is without jurisdiction to entertain this appeal. The appeal should be dismissed.
McFarland, C.J., joins in the foregoing dissent.