State v. Sasser

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 108,149 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. SHAWN ROBERT SASSER, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. Generally, a party cannot complain on appeal about a claimed error that was invited by that party. 2. Whether the invited error doctrine applies is a question of law over which this court has unlimited review. 3. A party's actions in causing the claimed error and the context in which those actions occurred must be carefully reviewed in deciding whether to trigger the invited error doctrine. There is no bright-line rule for its application. 4. In an…