State v. Liles

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 121,459 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. KORA L. LILES, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. A court follows a two-step analysis to address a prosecutorial error claim. First, it decides whether an error occurred. For the first step, if the claim relates to something the prosecutor said, the court looks at the statement complained about to decide if it falls outside the wide latitude afforded the prosecutor in conducting the State's case and attempting to obtain a conviction in a manner that does not offend a defendant's fair trial rights under the…