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State v. Soto

Citations

  • 301 Kan. 969
  • 349 P.3d 1256
  • 2015 Kan. LEXIS 317

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  • noting doctrine of invited error generally precludes criminal defendant from affirmatively inviting and leading court into error and then complaining of that error on appeal
  • declining to find invited error where defense counsel merely acquiesced in trial judge's conclusion that instruction on lesser included offense requested by State was not factually appropriate
  • declining to apply invited error doctrine when counsel merely acquiesced in a ruling that the facts did not justify a lesser included offense instruction after court initially proposed it
  • intentional second-degree murder is a lesser included offense of premeditated first-degree murder

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Judges: Malone, Rosen

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