kansas-supreme-court

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A132 Kyle Trevor Flack v. Kansas Kansas 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete capital-punishment eighth-amendment kansas-supreme-court mitigating-factors murder sentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a capital sentence under circumstances involving multiple murder victims and potential mitigati…
22-5372 Tony Lee Foster v. Kansas Kansas 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP Federal and U.S. Supreme Court precedent demands Kansas Supreme Court precedent civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-precedent judicial-review kansas-supreme-court procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-precedent state-statute statutory-review supreme-court-precedent Whether a state high court can deny review of a constitutional challenge to its own statute when procedural due process, state precedent, and federal …
20-7671 Ronald E. Johnson v. Derek Schmidt, Attorney General of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process kansas-supreme-court mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Was Astorga v. Kansas remanded back to the Kansas Supreme Court for the purpose of correcting with the Mandatory Sentence modification of Hard 40/50 p…
20-5921 Joseph J. Craig v. Kansas Kansas 2020-10-05 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-instruction kansas-supreme-court voluntary-intoxication Did the Kansas Supreme Court deny the defendants rights to a fair trial under the Due Process Clause when it should have ruled the defendant was entit…