State of Kansas, Appellee v. Daniel Barlett, Appellant.

Summary

The court affirmed Barlett's conviction for criminal discharge of a firearm into an occupied vehicle under an aiding-and-abetting theory. It held that a defendant is not categorically barred from asserting self-defense merely because the charged offense is a forcible felony, but the evidence here did not support the instruction because Barlett voluntarily joined a mutual combat confrontation. The court also rejected Barlett's claims concerning the aiding-and-abetting instruction, the omitted intentional-conduct definition, the jury's inability to replay part of a recording, and cumulative error.