State v. Flournoy

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Six, J.:

Defendant Vaughn Flournoy appeals his convictions for first-degree premeditated murder of his grandmother, Lillian Thomas, and battery of his girlfriend, Cheryl Key. K.S.A. 21-3401(a); K.S.A. 2000 Supp. 21-3412. The district court imposed a hard 40 sentence, finding that the murder was a crime committed for the purpose of receiving money or other thing of monetary value and was committed in an especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel manner. K.S.A. 21-4636(c), (f). One mitigating circumstance, no significant history of prior criminal activity,…