The Kansas Court of Appeals has upheld a Lyon County District Court sentence in a drug distribution case from 2016, but it’s also sending the case back to the local court to correct a journal entry.
The action this month is in the case of Kansas v. Nicholas Alonzo Moore and follows Moore’s conviction on numerous drug counts, including marijuana distribution, marijuana possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school and cocaine possession. District court sentenced Moore to nearly 10 years in prison but Moore appealed, saying the sentence was illegal after a disagreement about the crimes’ severity levels.
The Court of Appeals remanded the case back to district court after saying a lower court order to correct clerical mistakes didn’t clearly represent one of the crimes in the case.
