State v. Trotter
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of premeditated first-degree murder, capital murder, aggravated robbery, and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. Defendant later filed a pro se motion to correct an illegal sentence, requesting that his capital murder conviction be reversed because the complaint did not list the names of both individuals whose deaths served as the basis for the capital murder charge. The district court summarily denied Defendant's petition. The Supreme Court (1) affirmed the summary denial of Defendant's motion because a motion to correct an illegal sentence under Kan. Stat. Ann. 22-3504 cannot be used to collaterally challenge a conviction; and (2) denied Defendant's request to treat the motion as a motion under Kan. Stat. Ann. 60-1507.
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