State v. Maestas

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Biles, J.:

Michael Maestas, Jr., appeals from a first-degree premeditated murder conviction rendered after he admitted stabbing his mother to death. He advances five issues: (1) prosecutorial misconduct; (2) the failure to instruct on a lesser included offense of recldess second-degree murder; (3) alleged infringement on his *768right to present his defense; (4) the district court’s determination for sentencing purposes that he was not “mentally retarded” under K.S.A. 21-4634; and (5) the district court’s refusal to commit Maes-tas to the state security…