Opinion
No. 109,915.
2014-08-15
STATE of Kansas, Appellee, v. Tony B. SCHAEFER, Appellant.
To decide Shaefer's case, we need not decide whether an attorney may in some case have a duty to tell defendants about the potential consequences of the Kansas Sexually Violent Predator Act. Our record would allow us to do no more than speculate on possible future events that might—or might not—lead to involuntary-commitment proceedings. That is not the level of certainty found in Padilla, and the consensus thus far is that such speculative consequences do not trigger a mandatory duty on attorneys to advise their clients about them.