Supreme Court of Kansas· 12/5/2008

State v. Thompson

Citations

197 P.3d 355
287 Kan. 238
200 P.3d 22
2008 Kan. LEXIS 695
2008 WL 5101242

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determining that the possession of precursors statute proscribes a single unit of prosecution in the intent to manufacture
finding that had legislature intended to make possession of each substance listed in K.S.A. 65-7006[a] a separate offense, legislature could have explicitly stated as much in the statute
noting that “there is no reason why” courts must retreat from positions that disagree with Batchelder
finding that had the legislature intended to make possession of each substance listed in K.S.A. 65-7006[a] a separate offense, the legislature could have explicitly stated this in the statute
finding unitary conduct where defendant was charged with possession of supplies with intent to manufacture methamphetamine and there was no evidence of length of time, intervening events, or fresh impulses
stating, in dicta, that because the possession of heroin and cocaine would be prompted by separate impulses, “a double jeopardy analysis would end with a determination [that] the conduct was not unitary”

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Judges: Luckert

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