State v. LaGrange
Annotate this CaseDefendant challenged his conviction for criminal possession of a firearm in violation of Kan. Stat. Ann. 21-4204(a)(4)(A), which imposes a ten-year prohibition on the possession of a firearm by persons convicted of certain felonies. Defendant had a 1994 conviction for aggravated battery, one of the felonies listed in section 21-4204(a)(4)(A), for which he served a prison sentence. Defendant was released from prison on that sentence in 2004. The district court found the ten-year firearm prohibition period began upon Defendant's release from prison in 2004. Defendant argued that, as applied to him, the statutory language prohibited firearm possession for ten years from his date of conviction, which period had expired before his firearm possession in this case. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court, holding that the ten-year ban on the possession of firearms began to run against Defendant on the date he was released from prison on the aggravated battery sentence.
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