December 2--Tuesday--a.m.
State v. Kendrall Ransom, No. 99,281 (Sedgwick)
Direct appeal; First degree murder
Carl Maughan
[Affirmed; Beier; May 15, 2009]
- Denial of suppression of statements
- Improper admission of co-defendant hearsay
- Failure to instruct on proximate cause
- Failure to grant mistrial after in limine violation
- Improper amendment of complaint after state rested
- Sufficiency of evidence
Direct appeal; Aggravated indecent liberties with a child
Carl Folsom III
[Reversed and remanded; Rosen; Feb. 6, 2009]
- Failure to consider downward dispositional departure
December 2--Tuesday--p.m.
State v. James Thomas, No. 99,711 (Sedgwick)
Direct appeal; Aggravated indecent liberties with a child
Rachel Pickering
[Affirmed; Luckert; Jan. 30, 2009]
- Disproportionate sentence
- Failure to grant downward durational departure
Direct appeal; Indecent liberties with a child
Rick Kittel
[Affirmed; Beier; Feb. 6, 2009]
- Improper deadlocked jury instruction
December 3--Wednesday--a.m.
State v. Nicholas Bennett, No. 98,038 (Dickinson)
Direct appeal (petition for review); Possession
Patrick H. Dunn
[Reversed and remanded; Davis; Jan. 30, 2009]
- Improper probation condition in re searches
Direct appeal (petition for review); Aggravated indecent liberties with a child
Patrick H. Dunn
[Reversed and remanded; Johnson; Jan. 30, 2009]
- Failure to sequester witnesses
- Prosecutorial misconduct
- Sufficiency of evidence
State's appeal
Janine Cox
[Reversed; Johnson; Aug. 28, 2009]
- Constitutionality of statute admitting KBI reports at preliminary hearing
Direct appeal; Criminal sodomy
Elizabeth Herbert
[Reversed and remanded; Nuss; Dec. 11, 2009]
- Improper limitations of defense expert witness testimony
- Improper admission of prior bad act evidence
December 3--Wednesday--p.m.
State v. Christopher Gant, No. 98,026 (Sedgwick)
Direct appeal; First degree murder
Matthew Edge
[Affirmed; Rosen; Jan. 30, 2009]
- Denial of suppression of statements
- Error to allow detective to sit at counsel table
Motion to correct illegal sentence
Carl Maughan
[Affirmed; per curiam; Feb. 23, 2009]
- Failure to appoint counsel for motion
December 4--Thursday--a.m.
State v. Aaron Valladarez, No. 99,724 (Ford)
Direct appeal (transfer); Possession
Christopher O'Hara
[Remanded; Luckert; May 8, 2009]
- Jurisidiction of magistrate judge to take felony plea
- Sufficiency of allocution
Direct appeal; First degree murder
Korey Kaul
[Affirmed; Rosen; Jan. 30, 2009]
- Failure to instruct on misdemeanor manslaughter
- Sufficiency of evidence of proximate cause
- Improper admission of prior bad act evidence
- Improper admission of gruesome photographs