Supreme Court of Kansas· 3/13/2015

State v. Salary

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301 Kan. 586
343 P.3d 1165
2015 Kan. LEXIS 171

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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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Judges: Malone, Michael, Nuss

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