State v. Greene

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Allegrucci, J.:

Bxyon Greene appeals convictions of second-degree murder and aggravated battery. The issues raised by Greene are: denial of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel, limitation of the testimony of a defense witness, erroneous admission of a victim’s statement, and failure to instruct on Greene’s diminished capacity and on voluntary manslaughter.

Approximately a half hour after midnight on January 20, 1997, police were dispatched to 1139 Georgia in Kansas City, Kansas, where shooting had been reported. As police…