State v. Carter

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NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION

No. 113,739

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS

STATE OF KANSAS,
Appellee,

v.

CHRISTOPHER CARTER,
Appellant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

Appeal from Sedgwick District Court; JOHN J. KISNER, JR., judge. Opinion filed November 20,
2015. Affirmed.

Submitted for summary disposition pursuant to K.S.A. 2014 Supp. 21-6820(g) and (h).

Before MALONE, C.J., GREEN and HILL, JJ.

Per Curiam: Christopher E. Carter appeals the district court's denial of his motion
to correct an illegal sentence. We granted Carter's motion for summary disposition in lieu
of briefs pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 7.041A (2014 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 66). The
State has filed a response and requested that the district court's judgment be affirmed.

On June 28, 2010, Carter pled no contest to one count of aggravated indecent
liberties with a child and one count of aggravated indecent solicitation of a child. Carter's
presentence investigation report showed he had two nonperson felony convictions prior
to 1993. On November 5, 2010, the district court imposed a controlling sentence of 88
months' imprisonment. Carter did not timely appeal his sentence.

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On February 3, 2015, Carter filed a motion to correct illegal sentence based on
State v. Murdock, 299 Kan. 312, 323 P.3d 846 (2014), modified by Supreme Court order
September 19, 2014, overruled by State v. Keel, 302 Kan. ___, 357 P.3d 251 (2015). In
his motion, Carter argued that the district court erred by including his two nonperson
felony convictions prior to 1993 in his criminal history. The district court summarily
denied Carter's motion, finding the case was "[n]ot covered by Murdock or other case
law." Carter appealed the district court's ruling.

On appeal, Carter argues that the district court "erred by failing to amend his
criminal history." But as Carter acknowledges, the holding in Murdock only required pre-
1993 out-of-state person offenses to be classified as nonperson offenses for criminal
history purposes. The holding in Murdock has been overruled by Keel. But even before
Murdock was overruled by Keel, the holding in Murdock had no application to pre-1993
convictions that were already classified as nonperson felonies.

As the State notes in its response, under K.S.A. 2014 Supp. 21-6810, all verified
adult convictions will be considered and scored when determining criminal history. Even
unclassified offenses are considered and scored as nonperson crimes. There is no
authority to support Carter's request to change his pre-1993 nonperson felony convictions
to unscored felony convictions for criminal history purposes.

Affirmed.