United States Tenth Circuit

Denial of a petition for habeas relief from a first-degree murder conviction is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) whether Kansas's first-degree murder statute is unconstitutionally vague; 2) due process rights violation in the prosecution's use of a witness's purportedly coerced statements to impeach the witness's trial testimony; and 3) ineffective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2006
• Published 04/26/2006

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before TYMKOVICH, McKAY, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs:   Kari S. Schmidt, Conlee Schmidt & Emerson, LLP, Wichita, KS, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kristafer R. Ailslieger, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Kansas Attorney General, Topeka, KS, for Respondents-Appellees.