In the state of Kansas felonies are classified as off-grid or by a severity level. These severity levels are based on level 1 as the most severe and level 10 as the least severe. Each classification has its own predetermined sentence. The following are each criminal offense considered as a felony in the state of Kansas by its classification.
Off-Grid
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These felony offenses are punishable by a life sentence or execution:
- Capital Murder
- Murder: 1st degree
- Treason
Level 1 Felonies
These felony offenses are punishable by a mandatory sentence of imprisonment for 20 years:
- Murder: 2nd degree
- Aggravated kidnapping
- Rape
Level 2 Felonies
These felony offenses are punishable by a mandatory sentence of imprisonment of 15 years:
- Aggravated criminal sodomy (must register as a sex offender)
Level 3 Felonies
These felony offenses are punishable by a mandatory sentence of imprisonment of 7 years:
- Voluntary Manslaughter
- Assisted Suicide
- Kidnapping
- Aggravated robbery
- Aggravated liberties with a child by spouse of parent (must register as a sex offender)
- Criminal sodomy (must register as a sex offender)
- Aggravated arson
Level 4 Felonies
These felony offenses are punishable by a mandatory sentence of imprisonment of 5 years and six months:
- Aggravated battery
- Aggravated criminal threat
- Aggravated indecent liberties with a child (must register as a sex offender)
Level 5 Felonies
These felony offenses are punishable by a mandatory sentence of imprisonment of 4 years and 6 six months:
- Involuntary manslaughter
- Robbery
- Injury to pregnant woman
- Injury to pregnant woman with vehicle
- Indecent liberties with a child (must register as a sex offender)
- Sexual exploitation of a child (must register as a sex offender)
- Aggravated sexual battery (must register as a sex offender)
- Aggravated incest (must register as a sex offender)
- Abuse of a child
- Aggravated burglary
Level 6 Felonies
These felony offense are punishable by a mandatory sentence of imprisonment of 2 years and six months:
- Aggravated assault of law enforcement officer
- Aggravated criminal threat
- Mistreatment of an adult
- Promoting prostitution
- Arson
- Criminal use of explosives
- Tampering with a pipeline
Level 7 Felonies
These felony offenses are punishable by a mandatory sentence of 2 years imprisonment:
- Aggravated assault
- Aggravated interference with parental custody
- Blackmail
- Exposing others to life threatening communicable disease
- Contributing to a child’s misconduct/deprivation
- Burglary
- Criminal property damage
- Aggravated tampering with traffic signal
- Criminal use of financial card
- Impairing a security interest
- Perjury
- Filing a false Medicaid claim
Level 8 Felonies
These felony offenses are punishable by a mandatory sentence of 1 years and 3 months imprisonment:
- Aggravated Assault: second degree
- Child abandonment
- Forgery
- Providing false information
- Computer crimes
- Adding foreign materials to grains
- Compounding a crime
- Inciting a riot
- Commercial bribery
Level 9 Felonies
These felony offenses are punishable by mandatory sentence of 1 year imprisonment:
- Assisted suicide: second degree
- Criminal threat: second degree
- Lewd/lascivious behavior
- Furnishing alcohol to a minor for illicit purposes
- Destroying written instrument
- Altering legislative document
- Piracy of recording(s)
- Theft detecting shielding device
- Obstruction of justice
- Bribery of a judge
- Aggravated false impersonation
Level 10 Felonies
These felony offenses are punishable by a mandatory sentence of 9 months imprisonment:
- Interference of parental custody
- Stalking
- Unlawful sexual relations (must register as sex offender)
- Bigamy
- Incest (must register as a sex offender)
- Nonsupport of child or spouse
- Warehouse receipt fraud
Expungement
For less severe felony convictions an individual may petition the court for expungement of criminal records three years following successful completion of full sentence. For severe felony convictions an individual may petition the court for expungement of criminal records five years following successful completion of full sentence. However, individuals convicted of the following felony offenses are not eligible for expungement:
- Rape
- Indecent liberties with a child
- Criminal sodomy
- Aggravated criminal sodomy
- Indecent solicitation of a child
- Aggravated solicitation of a child
- Sexual exploitation of a child
- Aggravated incest
- Endangering a child
- Child abuse
- Murder (any degree/capital)
- Voluntary manslaughter
- Involuntary manslaughter
- Vehicular manslaughter
- Sexual battery
- Aggravated sexual battery
