Supreme Court of Kansas· 2/10/2012

State v. Burnett

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293 Kan. 840
270 P.3d 1115
2012 Kan. LEXIS 84

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declining to issue advisory opinion on double jeopardy issue that was not yet ripe
finding the prosecutor did not misstate the law in closing arguments \in the context of the entire closing argument and in conjunction with the instructions given at trial\ so it \need not address the second step of the prosecutorial misconduct analysis\
issue is not ripe until defendant's capital conviction is overturned and the State attempts to punish defendant again for the same crime
“When a prosecutor deliberately misstates the controlling law, he or she steps outside the considerable latitude given prosecutors.”
\The party asserting an abuse of discretion bears the burden of showing such an abuse of discretion.\
clearly erroneous standard applies to absence of instruction not requested

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Judges: Moritz

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