State v. Green

The defendant was convicted of premeditated first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 50 years. The Kansas Supreme Court held that the state’s premeditated first-degree murder statute was not unconstitutionally vague because the temporal and cognitive components of premeditation provided explicit standards for enforcement. The court also found that the district court did not err in excluding the preliminary hearing testimony of of a witness since the defednat failed to present evidence of teh witnesses’ unavailability beyond statements of counsel. The court also determined that the defendant’s initial waiver of counsel remained valid at sentencing, as the brief appointment of counsel did not substantially change the circumstances, and teh defendat reaffirmed his decision to represent himself.