Schoonover v. State

Foth, C.J.:

This is an appeal from the dismissal as an abuse of the remedy of petitioner’s second motion under K.S.A. 60-1507 to vacate her conviction of first degree murder.

Petitioner was convicted in 1974 and appealed. She abandoned her direct appeal following the institution of her first 1507 action, in which she alleged that she had been denied effective assistance of counsel at her trial. The trial court denied that petition and the denial was affirmed in Schoonover v. State, 218 Kan. 377, 543 P.2d 881 (1975), cert. den. 424 U.S. 944, 47 L.Ed.2d 349, 96 S.Ct. 1412 (1976). Petitioner…