Direct appeal (petition for review); Aggravated battery
Randall L. Hodgkinson
[Affd/rvd; per curiam; April 22, 2016]
- Overbroad jury instruction
- Insufficient evidence of alternative means
- Improper closing argument
- Failure to give limiting instruction
- Improper judicial finding requiring registration
State v. Bryce Dull, No. 106,437 (Sedgwick)
Sentencing appeal (petition for review)Joanna Labastida
[Rvd/rmd; Malone; June 5, 2015]
- Lifetime postrelease is cruel and unusual
- Improper consecutive sentences
State v. Eli Betancourt, No. 108,944 (Sedgwick)
Direct appeal; First-degree murderCarl F. A. Maughan
[Affirmed; Luckert; Feb. 13, 2015]
- Failure to suppress statements
- Improper admission of hearsay of co-defendants
- Failure to give cautionary eyewitness ID instruction
- Insufficient evidence
- Ineffective assistance of counsel
September 9--Tuesday--a.m.
Direct appeal; First-degree murder
Joanna Labastida
[Affd/Rmd; Biles; Dec. 12, 2014]
- Ineffective assistance of counsel
- Improper admission of hearsay evidence
- Improper closing argument
- Improper imposition of hard-50 sentence
State v. Trevejon Killings, No. 108,021 (Shawnee)
Direct appeal; First-degree murderChristina M. Kerls
[Affd/Vacd; Jan. 16, 2015; Rosen]
- Failure to give lesser-included offense instruction
- Improper closing argument
- Denial of right to be present
- Improper imposition of hard-50 sentence
September 10--Wednesday--a.m.
State appeal (petition for review)
Steven J. Atherton
[Affirmed; Malone; March 6, 2015]
- Whether backyard qualified as curtilage
- Whether improper entry into back yard attenuated
State v. Adam Longoria, No. 108,333 (Barton)
Direct appeal; Capital murderReid T. Nelson
[Affirmed; Luckert; March 6, 2015]
- Failure to change venue
- Failure to give lesser-included offense instruction
- Improper admission of photograph
- Improper admission of video of defendant being arrested
- Improper closing argument'
- Juror misconduct
- Insufficient evidence of capital murder
September 11--Thursday--a.m.
State appeal
Christopher M. Joseph
[Affirmed; Johnson; April 22, 2016]
- Retroactive application of KORA amendments violates Ex Post Facto Clause
State v. Promise Redmond, No. 110,280 (Shawnee)
State appealJeffrey G. Dazey
[Affirmed; Johnson; April 22, 2016]
- Retroactive application of KORA amendments violates Ex Post Facto Clause
State v. Joseph Buser, No. 105,982 (Mitchell)
Sentencing appeal (petition for review)Meryl Carver-Allmond
[Reversed; Johnson; April 22, 2016]
- Lifetime postrelease is cruel and unusual
- Improper use of juvenile adjudication as conviction for KORA
- Improper collection fee not authorized by statute
September 12--Friday--a.m.
Direct appeal; Capital murder
Debra J. Wilson
[Affirmed; Rosen; July 22, 2016]
- On remand from United States Supreme Court
State v. Willie Smith-Parker, No. 105,918 (Saline)
Direct appeal; First-degree murderLydia Krebs
[Rvd/rmd; Beier; Dec. 24, 2014]
- Insufficient evidence
- Insufficient evidence of alternative means
- Improper consolidation
- Improper exclusion of defense evidence as hearsay
- Improper burden of proof instruction
- Improper instruction after substitution of juror