State v. Griffen

How courts have described this case

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

• district judge referring to defendant as a “‘mean mother,”’ when explaining the case background to new defense counsel, while ill-advised, did not demonstrate bias and prejudice
• judge not to be disqualified because he reacted as would anyone else to evidence of accused's actions causing natural disgust
• the court, based on K.S.A. 60-102, found a defect in the notice of appeal immaterial because it did not cause any surprise to the prosecution concerning the issues raised by the defendant on appeal
• Kansas Supreme Court considers \totality of circumstances\ in finding district court's characterization of criminal defendant as \'a mean mother'\ in presentencing conference with lawyers to be inappropriate but not indicative of prejudicial predisposition warranting recusal
• State not misled, surprised, or prejudiced by notice of appeal
• State not misled, surprised, prejudiced by notice of appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).