State v. Raskie

Defendant Jeffrey Raskie was convicted of two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and was sentenced to a hard twenty-five life sentence for one offense and sixty-one months for the other. Raskie appealed, attacking his convictions on several grounds. The Supreme Court affirmed Raskie's convictions and vacated Raskie's hard twenty-five life sentence, holding (1) Raskie either failed to preserve or waived his evidentiary arguments; (2) the district court did not err in denying the motions for judgment of acquittal or in giving a certain instruction to the jury; (3) the prosecutor committed misconduct by making comments during closing argument about Raskie's lurid intent, but this error did not warrant reversal of Raskie's convictions; and (4) the district court failed to make adequate findings and conclusions of law on the issue of whether Raskie's hard twenty-five sentence violated that Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights or the Eighth Amendment. Remanded for consideration of Raskie's motion regarding the constitutionality of his sentence. View "State v. Raskie" on Justia Law