State v. Williams

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Six J.:

The primary issue is the district court’s denial of David L. Williams’ motion to withdraw his plea of nolo contendere. Williams pled to first-degree premeditated murder, aggravated kidnapping, rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, and other charges. Our jurisdiction is under K.S.A. 22-3601(b)(l) (Williams was convicted of first-degree murder, an off-grid crime).

Additional issues are whether the district court erred in: (a) denying Williams’ request for funds to hire a psychologist to present evidence in mitigation; (b) finding that Williams’ counsel…