State v. Palmer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lockett, J.:

An inquisition conducted by the Kansas Attorney General’s specially appointed prosecutors pursuant to K.S.A. 22-3101 et seq. to investigate alleged violations of the Campaign Finance Act, K.S.A. 25-4142 et seq. resulted in separate criminal complaints being filed against defendants David C. Owen, Elliot M. Kaplan, and John E. Palmer. Owen was charged with seven felony counts in case K-61870: four counts of theft, one count of conspiracy to commit theft, one count of making a false writing, and one count of criminal solicitation. In…