Ainscow v. Alexander

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• holding lesser included offense instructions for felony murder were legally inappropriate because felony murder has no lesser included offenses
• recognizing K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 21-5109[b][1]'s elimination of all lesser included offenses of felony murder
• reading the instructions as a whole, they inform the jury sufficiently to support the defendant's conviction
• reading the instructions as a whole, they inform the jury sufficiently to support the defendant's conviction
• listing the requirements of the compulsion defense, including that the compulsion must be continuous
• applying rule that appellate courts read jury instructions as a whole in order to determine whether they properly and fairly state the applicable law or whether they could have misled the jury

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