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State v. Gomez

Citations

  • 235 P.3d 1203
  • 290 Kan. 858
  • 2010 Kan. LEXIS 431

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a litigant abandoned an Eighth Amendment argument by only making a passing citation to the Amendment in his brief without any supporting federal cases or argument
  • holding defendant's proportionality claim under the Eighth Amendment presents questions of law
  • explaining the general prohibition against raising state or federal constitutional challenges for the first time on appeal
  • discussing exceptions that an appellant may invoke to justify raising a constitutional issue for the first time on appeal
  • finding a defendant was not entitled to appellate review of claim raised for first time on direct appeal that sentence was cruel and unusual under Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights
  • addressing all three factors despite finding against defendant on the first Freeman factor

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Judges: Luckert, Davis, Larson

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