Supreme Court of Kansas· 6/1/2001

State v. Ramos

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24 P.3d 95
271 Kan. 520
2001 Kan. LEXIS 388

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finding that criminal discharge of a firearm and felony murder were separate and distinct offenses which require proof of different elements; the crimes did not merge and punishment for both crimes did not violate double jeopardy
statements found voluntary under totality of circumstances including that defendant had equivalent of ninth-grade education
minors confession voluntary even where he was up all night before questioning and seemed tired to the interrogating officer, but showed no outward signs of exhaustion such as slurred speech, repetition, or incoherence
consecutive sentences for felony murder and criminal discharge of a firearm did not violate double jeopardy because the act of discharging the firearm into an occupied dwelling was separate and distinct from the resulting death

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