Supreme Court of Kansas· 1/30/2009

State v. Thomas

Citations

199 P.3d 1265
288 Kan. 157
2009 Kan. LEXIS 6

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departure from Jessica's Law would have led to 59 months under a severity level 3
appellate courts do not make factual findings; they review thosé made by the district courts
merely mentioning constitutional concepts without elaborating on them and changing the constitutional theory on appeal precludes effective appellate review
under K.S.A. 2006 Supp. 21-4643(a)(l)(C), district court ordered post-release supervision for life if Thomas would be paroled from his mandatory life sentence without possibility of parole for 25 years
regardless of whether the record contains sufficient evidence to make factual findings, that is not the role of this court
regardless of whether record contains sufficient evidence to make factual findings, that is not role of appellate courts

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Judges: Luckert, McFarland, Standridge

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