Criminal Damage to Property

Property crimes can carry just as harsh sentences as person crimes such as domestic battery and criminal threat. If you are facing serious charges such as criminal damage to property, you need to contact a skilled Kansas criminal lawyer immediately. Depending on the value of what was damaged, the charge may be a misdemeanor or a felony. Even a misdemeanor conviction can destroy your future, leave a criminal record, and cause serious difficulties.

Often, criminal damage to property accompanies domestic battery charges as one person accuses the other of destroying things like their cell phone. If you are facing such charges, call our law firm now to speak with a Kansas criminal defense attorney to represent you.

The following is the Kansas Statute for Criminal Damage to Property.

Chapter 21: Crimes And Punishments

PART II.--PROHIBITED CONDUCT

Article 37: Crimes Against Property

K.S.A. 21-3720: Criminal damage to property. (a) Criminal damage to property is by means other than by fire or explosive:

(1) Intentionally injuring, damaging, mutilating, defacing, destroying, or substantially impairing the use of any property in which another has an interest without the consent of such other person; or

(2) injuring, damaging, mutilating, defacing, destroying, or substantially impairing the use of any property with intent to injure or defraud an insurer or lienholder.

(b) (1) Criminal damage to property is a severity level 7, nonperson felony if the property is damaged to the extent of $25,000 or more.

(2) Criminal damage to property is a severity level 9, nonperson felony if the property is damaged to the extent of at least $1,000 but less than $25,000.

(3) Criminal damage to property is a class B nonperson misdemeanor if the property damaged is of the value of less than $1,000 or is of the value of $1,000 or more and is damaged to the extent of less than $1,000.