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   State Courts - Kansas - August 3 - August 10, 2007

  
Midwest Crane & Rigging, Inc. v. Kan. Corp. Comm'n, No. 97,214, COURT OF APPEALS OF KANSAS, August 3, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Because the issue of whether appellant crane company was a motor carrier (and thus, subject to oversight by appellee Kansas Corporation Commission) required the interpretation of statutes administered by the commission, exhaustion of administrative remedies was required before the company filed a declaratory judgment action.

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N. Country Villas Homeowners Ass'n v. Kokenge, No. 97,018, COURT OF APPEALS OF KANSAS, August 3, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Although a developer could assign its rights under a subdivision declaration, the attempt by the lot owners to either revoke or amend the declaration as to their property was unenforceable where it the general amendment provision did not sufficiently notify purchasers that an amendment materially changing the subdivision's character could occur.

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State v. Davis, No. 95,523, SUPREME COURT OF KANSAS, August 3, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Conviction was affirmed because defendant was not prejudiced by a judge's ex parte conversation with a juror, who was excused, and any errors were harmless; reading of preliminary hearing testimony by a prosecutor into the record did not violate defendant's due process rights; evidence was sufficient to establish agreement element of conspiracy.

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State v. McCall, No. 93,259, COURT OF APPEALS OF KANSAS, August 3, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Defendant's identity theft sentence was affirmed because the trial court did not err by failing to consider defendant's ability to pay when ordering restitution, as the plain language of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-4603d(b)(1) (2006) did not require such a finding.

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State v. Meza, No. 96,502, COURT OF APPEALS OF KANSAS, August 3, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Defendant who used false identification to obtain work was properly found guilty of identity theft under Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-4018(a) because the State proved intent to defraud for economic benefit; the prosecution was not time-barred under Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-3106(8) because identity theft was a continuing offense.

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Cimarex Energy Co. v. Seward County Bd. of County Comm'rs, No. 96,657, COURT OF APPEALS OF KANSAS, August 10, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: State Board of Tax Appeals' (BOTA) order compelling a company to disclose its in-house reserves information was reversed; because BOTA never found "just cause" to allow the county to deviate from the Oil and Gas Appraisal Guide to use the information to establish fair market value, the ruling was contrary to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 79-1456.

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McPherson v. State, No. 96,314, COURT OF APPEALS OF KANSAS, August 10, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Defendant could plead guilty to the nonexistent crime of attempted second-degree unintentional murder under Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-3402 because he was originally charged with two valid crimes and he pleaded no contest in order to receive the benefit of a favorable plea bargain, which cut his sentence by nearly two-thirds.

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Russell v. Farmers Ins. Co., No. 96,416, COURT OF APPEALS OF KANSAS, August 10, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Trial court erred in denying insurer's motion for summary judgment in insured's action for uninsured motorist benefits after the insured fell while hurriedly stepping backward to avoid a speeding unidentified motorist because disinterested witness provision in policy, based on Kan. Stat. Ann. § 40-284(e)(3), was exclusion or limitation of coverage.

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State v. Stallings, Nos. 93,879, 93,895, SUPREME COURT OF KANSAS, August 10, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Defendant did not have a right to allocution before jury during the death penalty phase of capital murder trial because he was not permitted to do so under any Kansas statute, he had no due process right to address death penalty jury, and all convicted persons were treated equally in that they all had the right to allocute before sentencing judge.

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