Supreme Court of Kansas
State v. Douglas
July 2, 2021490 P.3d 34
Summary
The court affirmed Douglas's three first-degree premeditated murder convictions. It held that defense counsel's statement declining to request lesser included instructions did not induce the district court's omission, but the assumed instructional errors were not clearly erroneous because the evidence of premeditation was overwhelming. The court also found one instance of prosecutorial error in closing argument, but held it harmless beyond a reasonable doubt because there was no reasonable possibility it affected the verdict.