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Date: 12-05-2022

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State of Kansas v. Judi Lynn Allison

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Judge: Burce Gatterman

Court: District Court, Pawnee County, Kansas

Plaintiff's Attorney: Pawnee County Kansas District Attorney's Office

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Description: Larned, Kansas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with f theft stemming from a 2019 incident involving tools missing from an estate auction valued at $1,200 in violation of 21-5801, which provides:

Judi Lynn Allison and her husband were videoed loading boxes of tools into a trailer during the auction on September 5, 2019.

Theft. (a) Theft is any of the following acts done with intent to permanently deprive the owner of the possession, use or benefit of the owner's property or services:

(1) Obtaining or exerting unauthorized control over property or services;

(2) obtaining control over property or services, by deception;

(3) obtaining control over property or services, by threat;

(4) obtaining control over stolen property or services knowing the property or services to have been stolen by another; or

(5) knowingly dispensing motor fuel into a storage container or the fuel tank of a motor vehicle at an establishment in which motor fuel is offered for retail sale and leaving the premises of the establishment without making payment for the motor fuel.

(b) Except as provided in subsection (c), theft of:

(1) Property or services of the value of $100,000 or more is a severity level 5, nonperson felony;

(2) property or services of the value of at least $25,000 but less than $100,000 is a severity level 7, nonperson felony;

(3) property or services of the value of at least $1,000 but less than $25,000 is a severity level 9, nonperson felony;

(4) property or services of the value of less than $1,000 is a class A nonperson misdemeanor, except as provided in subsection (b)(5) or (b)(6);

(5) property regardless of the value from three separate mercantile establishments within a period of 72 hours as part of the same act or transaction or in two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or course of conduct is a severity level 9, nonperson felony; and

(6) property of the value of less than $1,000 is a severity level 9, nonperson felony if committed by a person who has been convicted of theft two or more times.

(c) As used in this section:

(1) "Conviction" or "convicted" includes being convicted of a violation of K.S.A. 21-3701, prior to its repeal, this section or a municipal ordinance which prohibits the acts that this section prohibits;

(2) "regulated scrap metal" means the same as in K.S.A. 2012 Supp. 50-6,109, and amendments thereto; and

(3) "value" means the value of the property or, if the property is regulated scrap metal, the cost to restore the site of the theft of such regulated scrap metal to its condition at the time immediately prior to the theft of such regulated scrap metal, whichever is greater.


Outcome: Defendant was found guilty of theft of property valued at less than $1,500.

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