Supreme Court of Kansas· 4/21/1995

State v. Ricks

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257 Kan. 435
894 P.2d 191
1995 Kan. LEXIS 56

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concluding limiting instruction regarding purposes for which jury could consider prior conflicts between defendant and homicide victim “had litde, if any, likelihood of changing the results of the trial, and any error therein is harmless.”
noting the common-law duty had been little discussed for more than half a century and finding it applicable when “a nonaggressor . . . [has been] menaced on home ground”
defendant testified to belief victim would shoot him as victim had pulled gun on him before
defendant testified to belief victim would shoot him as victim had pulled gun on him before
refusal of no-duty-to-retreat instruction proper when defendant “took his gun with him before anything occurred”

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