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Kahler v. Kansas, 589 U.S. ___ (2020), is a case of the United States Supreme Court in which the justices ruled that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution do not require that states adopt the insanity defense in criminal cases that are based on the defendant's ability to recognize right from wrong.
Kansas v. Carr, 577 U.S. 108 (2016), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States clarified several procedures for sentencing defendants in capital cases. ...
The Kansas Supreme Court has struck down the portion of a Wichita law that criminalizes “noisy conduct,” finding it to be unconstitutional.
The Kansas Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in the U.S. state of Kansas.Composed of seven justices, led by Chief Justice Marla Luckert, [1] the court supervises the legal profession, administers the judicial branch, and serves as the state court of last resort in the appeals process.
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state's law providing compensation to incarcerated people who were wrongfully convicted doesn't apply if the defendant was only "legally" innocent ...
The Kansas Supreme Court appeared skeptical this week of a 2021 state law criminalizing “false representation” of an election official. Civic groups say the measure hampers voter registration ...
The Governor of Kansas has the power of clemency in capital cases, which they may exercise after receiving a non-binding recommendation from a board. [8] In 2004, the Kansas Supreme Court in a 4 to 3 decision ruled that the state's death penalty statute was unconstitutional. [9] The decision was later reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Kansas v
State v. Allen was a 1996 decision of the Kansas Supreme Court regarding what constitutes the unlawful access of a computer system. The court upheld the decision of the trial court, finding that the state had failed to show probable cause that the defendant, Anthony A. Allen, had unlawfully accessed the computer systems of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.