State v. Kesselring

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• holding investigator’s testimony regarding hearsay statements of various witnesses who were testifying at trial properly admitted pursuant to K.S.A. 60-460[a]
• finding “no reason to doubt tire jurors’ unanimity regarding first-degree murder” when evidence was sufficient to support either premeditation or felony murder
• kidnapping was a continuous incident that could not be factually separated despite the fact that the event transpired over several hours, the victim was moved from one location to another, and the victim was momentarily free during an attempted escape
• finding no multiple acts where kidnapping was a continuous incident that could not be factually separated even though it happened over several hours, the victim was moved from one location to another, and the 19 victim was momentarily free and tried to escape
• “A multiple acts instruction is not necessary when the allegations relate to a continuous incident that cannot be factually separated.”
• \The threshold question in a multiple acts analysis is whether defendant's conduct is part of one act or represents multiple acts which are separate and distinct from each other.\

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