State of Kansas, Appellee v. Sheena Thomas, Appellant.

Summary

The court affirmed Thomas' aggravated-battery conviction, rejecting her confrontation, prosecutorial-error, and cumulative-error claims. It held that KORA registration is not part of a criminal sentence and that, absent the required court-made deadly-weapon finding, no registration duty arose; the Court of Appeals therefore erred by remanding for such a finding. Justice Rosen, joined by Justices Beier and Johnson, would have treated KORA registration as part of sentencing and regarded the judge-made triggering provision as unconstitutional, while Justice Johnson concurred in the result on a different sentencing rationale.