State v. Gulley

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 122,271 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. EMOND S. GULLEY, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. Words alone are not legally sufficient provocation to support a voluntary manslaughter instruction. 2. A prosecutor does not commit prosecutorial error by suggesting a defendant could not have been pressured into falsely inculpating himself or herself during interrogation because he or she did not succumb to the pressures on the witness stand. 3. Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S. Ct. 2455,

183 L. Ed. 2d 407

(2012), prohibits mandatory sentences of life…