Kansas Supreme Court Decisions

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions for capital murder and aggravated kidnapping but, as to Defendant’s death sentence, the Court remanded the limited question on intellectual disability to the district co...

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the court of appeals ruling on Defendant’s motion for a new trial in this criminal case and affirmed Defendant’s conviction for felony burglary and the district court’s denial of Defendant’s mo...

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court rejected the arguments of Plaintiffs, two public school teachers, who sought a judgment declaring the 2014 amendments to the Teacher Due Process Act, Kan. Stat. Ann. 72-5436 et seq., unconstitutional be...

Justia Opinion Summary: The district court erred in this case by denying Defendant’s petition for DNA testing of hairs found at the crime scene. Defendant was convicted of kidnapping, rape, aggravated robbery, and aggravated intimidation of a...

Justia Opinion Summary: A defendant may not assert self-defense if that defendant is already otherwise committing a forcible felony when he or she commits a separate act of violence. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s conviction of crimina...

Justia Opinion Summary: Substantial evidence supported the Workers Compensation Board’s decision to deny workers compensation benefits to Appellant, who was severely injured when he was hit by a drunk driver while walking from a bar to his hote...

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the decision of the district court, which ordered a reduced term of ten years of postrelease supervision after finding that a sentence of lifetime...

Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the portion of the court of appeals decision affirming the district court’s order of restitution because neither the district court nor the court of appeals had the advantage of the decision in...