Supreme Court of Kansas· 12/16/1994

State v. Reed

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256 Kan. 547
886 P.2d 854
1994 Kan. LEXIS 171

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concluding that shooting the victim in the head was not especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel and other testimony supporting the finding amounted to conjecture and speculation
concluding that shooting victim in the head was not especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel and other testimony supporting the finding amounted to conjecture and speculation, but upholding hard 40 sentence based on another aggravating factor
concluding that shooting the victim in the head was not especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel and other testimony supporting the finding amounted to conjecture and speculation but upholding the hard 40 sentence based on another aggravating factor
finding no error in the failure to provide an accomplice instruction when the alleged accomplice’s testimony “was neither wholly uncorroborated nor the sole basis for the defendant’s conviction” and where circumstantial evidence also pointed to the defendant as the killer
this court can affirm hard 40 sentence even if evidence was insufficient to find one of the aggravating factors cited

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Judges: Davis, Allegrucci, Holmes, Six

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