State v. Anderson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Biles, J.:

A jury convicted Rashawn T. Anderson of intentional second-degree murder and reckless aggravated battery for shooting two men on a downtown street in Lawrence following a rap concert. There were several eyewitnesses. The Court of Appeals affirmed his convictions. State v. Anderson, No. 99,123, 2009 WL 793019 (Kan. App. 2009) (unpublished opinion).

This court granted Anderson’s petition for review to consider whether: (1) the jury was improperly instructed to consider the degree of certainty expressed by an eyewitness when determining if an…