State v. Parry

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 113,130 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellant, v. DOMINIC PARRY, Appellee. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. The law of the case doctrine prevents a party from relitigating an issue already decided within successive stages of the same proceeding. 2. An appellate court ordinarily will not consider an issue raised for the first time on appeal. But in limited circumstances, the court has discretion to review such an issue. One such circumstance is when the newly asserted issue involves only a legal question arising on undisputed facts that will be finally…