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Supreme Court of Kansas· 11/25/2015

State v. Dern

Citations

  • 303 Kan. 384
  • 362 P.3d 566
  • 2015 Kan. LEXIS 934

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing inapplicability of harmless error rule for alternative means errors and declining to \consider[] anew the question\ absent a specific request to do so
  • stating “the trustworthiness standard looks to the totality of the circumstances to assess both whether the crime occurred and whether the confession was trustworthy—i.e., reliable”
  • finding defendant's admission to sexual misconduct unlikely to lead to improper jury verdict because misconduct involved same victim and conduct of same character
  • declining to apply invited error when defendant did not object to, or request, the challenged instruction
  • referring to \oral contact of genitalia\ as one general means of committing sodomy
  • summarizing Perry’s Case, a 1661 English case in which John Perry was convicted for the murder of his master and executed based solely on a false confession, after which the alleged victim reappeared and explained that he had instead been kidnapped and sold into slavery

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Judges: Biles, Johnson, Stegall

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38 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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