Supreme Court of Kansas· 10/27/2006

State v. Alger

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145 P.3d 12
282 Kan. 297
2006 Kan. LEXIS 664

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refusing to consider the voluntariness of statements to police for the first time on appeal
constitutional grounds for reversal raised for the first time on appeal are not properly before the appellate court
“ ’[the victim] will forever be two years old and her last memory will forever be that of the Defendant violently shaking the life out of her ”
even constitutional grounds for reversal cannot be raised for the first time on appeal
prosecutor did not cross “line between mere recitation of expected evidence and forbidden argument” when he said victim would “forever be two years old and her last memory will forever be that of the Defendant violently shaking the life out of her”
prosecutor stated during opening statement that two-year-old victim's \ 'last memory will forever be that of the Defendant violently shaking the life out of her' \; prosecutor \danced on the line between mere recitation of expected evidence and forbidden argument\ but did not step over it

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Judges: Beier

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