Supreme Court of Kansas· 1/10/2014

State v. Akins

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298 Kan. 592
315 P.3d 868
2014 WL 92021
2014 Kan. LEXIS 3

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deciding whether the prosecutor had improperly asserted personal knowledge of the evidence and argued facts not in evidence when she referred to defendant's behaviors as grooming, though she did not present any evidence-expert or otherwise-that the described behaviors were grooming
noting jury's tendency to \'overvalue what is effectively unsworn testimony by a highly regarded prosecutor'\
“Grooming is a well-known phenomenon in the context of sexual abuse.”
supplying \guidance\ because other raised issue could arise in a retrial
setting out harmless error standards applicable to constitutional and nonconstitutional errors
addressing prosecutor's comments regarding grooming during opening statements and closing arguments

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