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State v. Pennington

Citations

  • 281 Kan. 426
  • 132 P.3d 902
  • 2006 Kan. LEXIS 222

How courts have described this case

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  • upholding exclusion of mental disease or defect evidence when defendant did not proffer tire evidence as tending to prove the disease or defect prevented him from forming required mental state
  • no error to exclude psychologist’s expert testimony proffered in furtherance of theory of defense when evidence irrelevant to mens rea defense
  • expert testimony irrelevant when it does not tend to demonstrate defendant is unable to form requisite intent or does not support mental disease or defect defense as a matter of law
  • “crime of aggravated robbery requires proof only of general intent”
  • mental disease or defect negates intent element of crime

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Judges: Beier, Lockett, McFarland

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