Supreme Court of Kansas· 4/22/2016

State v. Petersen-Beard

Citations

304 Kan. 192
377 P.3d 1127
2016 Kan. LEXIS 241

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Eighth Amendment and § 9 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights construed to secure same protections against cruel and unusual punishment
lifetime registration under KORA for defendants convicted of sex offenses is not punishment under either United States Constitution or Kansas Constitution
postrelease registration mandated by the Kansas Offender Registration Act does not constitute punishment for purposes of applying the provisions of the United States Constitution
the Legislature did not intend for KORA's lifetime sex offender registration scheme to be punitive, and the burdens imposed by KORA's registration requirements were not so onerous as to constitute punishment
“We therefore overrule the contrary holdings of Thompson . . .”
an offender is disadvantaged by application of a punitive statute

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Judges: Stegall, Johnson, Beier, Rosen, Johnson'S

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