– State v. Pruitt –

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 118,448 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. HOWARD R. PRUITT, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. Prosecutor's statement in summing up testimony about alleged murder weapon, "This seems to be the shotgun, folks. I don't think there's a lot of question about that at this point," was an impermissible personal opinion; but it does not require reversal of the defendant's premeditated first-degree murder conviction. 2. Prosecutor's statement that the victim deserved jurors' "consideration" was not error, when the context of the statement demonstrates that…