State v. Calderon

661 P.2d 781, 233 Kan. 87, 1983 Kan. LEXIS 288
CourtSupreme Court of Kansas
DecidedMarch 26, 1983
Docket54,364
StatusPublished
Cited by45 cases

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State v. Calderon, 661 P.2d 781, 233 Kan. 87, 1983 Kan. LEXIS 288 (kan 1983).

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The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schroeder, C.J.:

This is a criminal action in which Frank D. Calderon (defendant-appellant) appeals a conviction of aggravated sodomy (K.S.A. 21-3506) from the district court of Pottawatomie County. The appellant contends the trial court erred in refusing to sustain his motion to dismiss on the grounds that this prosecution violated the double jeopardy provisions of K.S.A. 21-3108(2)(a) and his constitutional right to a speedy trial, and that he is entitled to credit under K.S.A. 21-4614 for the time served from the date of his arrest on that charge.

The evidence in the record reveals that the appellant forcibly placed an eleven-year-old boy in his car in Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas, and drove to a farm near Manhattan, located in Pottawatomie County. There the appellant performed sodomy on the boy. The appellant then drove the boy back to Manhattan where he was released.

The next day, on August 20, 1980, the appellant was charged with kidnapping and aggravated sodomy in the district court of Riley County. On September 8, 1980, the aggravated sodomy charge was dismissed without prejudice on a motion by the State. On September 17, 1980, the appellant was charged with aggravated sodomy in the district court of Pottawatomie County.

On December 8, 1980, the appellant entered a plea of nolo contendere to the kidnapping charge in Riley County. The appellant was sentenced to the state penitentiary at Lansing.

On September 2, 1981, the appellant was returned from the state penitentiary to Pottawatomie County to answer the charge of aggravated sodomy, and was arraigned on September 17, 1981, exactly one year after the charge was first filed in Pottawatomie County. On October 9, 1981, the trial court heard the appellant’s motion to dismiss, which alleged violations of K.S.A. 21-3108(2)(c) (double jeopardy), K.S.A. 22-3402 (right to speedy trial), and K.S.A. 22-4301 et seq. (Uniform Mandatory Disposition of Detainers Act). The motion was overruled. The matter was tried to the court on October 27, 1981, with evidence being [89]*89presented upon stipulation of the parties by the county attorney. No evidence was presented by the appellant. The trial court found the appellant guilty of aggravated sodomy. In imposing sentence the court gave the. appellant credit for the time spent in jail on the Pottawatomie County charge from September 2, 1981, through October 27, 1981. This appeal followed.

The first issue on appeal concerns the double jeopardy provisions of K.S.A. 21-3108(2)(c), which provides:

“A prosecution is barred if the defendant was formerly prosecuted for a different crime, or for the same crime based upon different facts, if such former prosecution:
“(a) Resulted in either a conviction or an acquittal and the subsequent prosecution is for a crime or crimes of which evidence has been admitted in the former prosecution and which might have been included as other counts in the complaint, indictment or information filed in such former prosecution or upon which the state then might have elected to rely . . . .”

The appellant contends the Pottawatomie County prosecution is barred because evidence concerning the sodomy charge was admitted during the proceeding before the Riley County court at which the appellant entered his plea of nolo contendere to the kidnapping charge. The “evidence” the appellant relies on in support of his claim of double jeopardy consists of the following statement made by the Assistant Riley County Attorney in response to the court’s inquiry concerning the factual basis for the kidnapping charge:

“Your Honor, I don’t think there’s any question that there’s a factual basis for the plea. . . . Basically the State’s evidence would show that this defendant, who [was] identified at the preliminary hearing, did pick up [the victim] by force —• actually removing him from his bicycle and then putting him into an automobile, taking him outside this county, over to Pottawatomie County where the State had alleged that he had performed aggravated sodomy on the boy.”

Three elements must be present to bar a subsequent prosecution under K.S.A. 21-3108(2)(a). First, the prior prosecution must have resulted in a conviction or acquittal, second, evidence of the present crime must have been introduced in the prior prosecution, and third, the charge in the second prosecution must have been one which could have been charged as an additional count in the prior case. State v. Mahlandt, 231 Kan. 665, Syl. ¶ 2, 647 P.2d 1307 (1982); In re Berkowitz, 3 Kan. App. 2d 726, 602 P.2d 99 (1979).

The State maintains the Pottawatomie County prosecution was [90]*90not barred for the reasons that the sodomy charge could not have been charged as an additional count in the Riley County prosecution because venue was improper there, and that K.S.A. 21-3108(2)(a) requires that evidence of the subsequent prosecution must have been admitted at a former trial, and is inapplicable where the prior conviction is based upon a plea of guilty or nolo contendere.

The resolution of this issue requires us to first determine whether the aggravated sodomy charge could have been brought as an additional charge in Riley County. The general rule is that venue exists in the county where the crime was committed. K.S.A. 22-2602. An exception to this rule appears in K.S.A. 22-2603, which states:

“Where two or more acts are requisite to the commission of any crime and such acts occur in different counties the prosecution may be in any county in which any of such acts occur.”

Construing this language as it appeared in the then-existing venue statute, K.S.A. 62-404 (Corrick), the court in Addington v. State, 199 Kan. 554, 563, 431 P.2d 532 (1967), held that for the statute to apply an overt act must occur in one county and the effects of such overt act, which are necessary to complete the crime, must occur in another county.

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