Month: June 2020

Kansas Law Review blog

Mootness After Sentence Completion: A Prudential Analysis

Under Kansas law, a petitioner’s appeal to correct an illegal sentence is moot if the sentence is already complete, unless there is a collateral injury that the motion can correct.

Kansas Law Review blog

Where Mental Culpability Not Required, Voluntariness Still Relevant to the Actus Reus Requirement

Author: Shelby Sternberg, Comments Editor State v. Dinkel, No. 113,705 (Kan., June 12, 2020) Issue:  K.S.A. 21-5503(a)(3) has no requirement for mental culpability for rape when it involves sexual intercourse with a child under 14, which is unique …