State v. Higgenbotham

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• inferring tire absence of any mitigating circumstances when the district court failed to make any findings on the record regarding mitigating circumstances
• although court mentions challenge to sufficiency of evidence on talcing and confinement, it discusses only challenge to sufficiency of evidence on force, threat, or deception
• although court mentions challenge to sufficiency of evidence on taking and confinement, it discusses only challenge to sufficiency of evidence on force, threat, or deception
• Section 10 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights also protects the accused's exercise of their privilege not to testify
• test is whether rational factfinder could have found each means beyond a reasonable doubt
• prosecutor's repeated references to defendant as a man with many secrets were not a comment on defendant's decision not to testify but were permissible references to evidence regarding defendant's secretive conduct

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