State v. Vargas

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 119,741 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. DOMINIC VARGAS, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. A district court has no authority to hold one of two convictions for alternatively charged counts in abeyance. 2. When a jury returns guilty verdicts on two alternatively charged counts, a district court may enter only one conviction. 3. Where alternatively charged counts result in multiple guilty verdicts for alternative ways of committing one crime, the multiple verdicts merge into one conviction. Review of the judgment of the Court of Appeals in an…