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· 5/4/1999

State v. Cravatt

Citations

  • 979 P.2d 679
  • 267 Kan. 314
  • 1999 Kan. LEXIS 255

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding no prosecutorial misconduct for telling jury, \`Don't let a murderer go free because of these half-baked theories the defense has presented to you.'\
  • premeditation is state of mind relating to reasons and motives for accused’s acts and is necessary element of premeditated first-degree murder
  • A prosecutor “may not make assertions of fact in the form of questions to a witness absent a good faith basis for believing the asserted matters to be true.”
  • A prosecutor \may not make assertions of fact in the form of questions to a witness absent a good faith basis for believing the asserted matters to be true.\
  • prosecutor’s comment that jury should not let defendant get away with killing 21-year-old victim not improper; State asking “jury to seriously consider the nature of the defendant’s act toward the victim”
  • eyewitness testified defendant shot victim

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Judges: Davis

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