Supreme Court of Kansas· 2/17/2012

State v. Deal

Citations

293 Kan. 872
269 P.3d 1282
2012 Kan. LEXIS 87

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holding that intentional second-degree murder is a specific intent crime
concluding defendant’s act of intentionally beating his victim evidenced conscious and unjustifiable disregard of danger to his victim and supported conviction for second-degree recldess murder
focusing on the distinction between an intention to act, i.e., to hit, and an intention to obtain a result, i.e., to kill
discussing distinction between intent to commit a specific act and intent to cause a type of injury, such as death or great bodily harm
looking for an act “performed with knowledge the victim is in imminent danger,” even if the ultimate injury—death—was not foreseen
“We approve of the language used as a clear statement of the burden of the State in criminal trials.”

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Judges: Luckert, Moritz, Stutzman

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