State v. Salary

How courts have described this case

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• clarifying that Ward standard for nonconstitutional error governs district court's failure to give requested jury instruction on lesser included offense
• declining to address additional sentencing issue as moot, once hard 50 sentence vacated for violating United States Constitution
• finding harmless error in the failure to instruct on voluntary manslaughter given strong evidence of premeditation
• finding defendant's use of a handgun to shoot victim multiple times supported inference of premeditation
• finding error in declining to give lesser-included-offense instruction asserting self-defense harmless in 19 light of strong evidence of premeditation and weak evidence of honest belief of need to employ deadly force
• \[L]eaving a confrontation with an individual and then returning with a loaded firearm and shooting that same person . . . typically [renders a person] ineligible for a self-defense instruction\ under Kansas caselaw.

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