State v. King
Supreme Court of Kansas
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Luckert, J.:
Kameron King was convicted by a jury of one count of arson, three counts of criminal threat, one felony count of criminal damage to property, one misdemeanor count of criminal damage to property, one count of assault, .one count of battery, and one count of domestic battery. We reverse two of King’s convictions *957for criminal threat, rejecting the State’s theory that the unit of prosecution for a criminal threat is the number of victims who perceive and comprehend the threat. Instead, we hold there can only be one conviction for a single…
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