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State v. Finley

Citations

  • 998 P.2d 95
  • 268 Kan. 557
  • 2000 Kan. LEXIS 23

How courts have described this case

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  • ”[T]he good faith of the State is irrelevant where the actions coerce a defense witness into asserting his or her right not to testify.”
  • \[T]he good faith of the State is irrelevant where the actions coerce a defense witness into asserting his or her right not to testify.\
  • “We cannot tolerate this land of drug use in our community, especially when a person dies. You have to find him guilty.”
  • improper appeal to sympathy, local standards when prosecutor informed jurors they enforced laws, could not tolerate “this kind of drug use in our community”

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Judges: Davis

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