State v. Zamora

The opinion of the court was delivered by

LARSON, J.:

Guadaloupe Zamora appeals his 1995 jury convictions of two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and one count of aggravated kidnapping, resulting in a controlling sentence of life imprisonment. The charges stemmed from the molestation of an 8-year-old boy in 1991. Our jurisdiction is pursuant to K.S.A. 22-3601(b)(1).

The issues on appeal relate to claimed trial errors of allowing prefiminary hearing testimony to be read into evidence after finding the witness was unavailable and refusing to grant a mistrial after an impaneled juror stated…