State v. Sperry

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Allegrucci, J.:

Jeffrey Sperry appeals his conviction by a jury of one count of premeditated first-degree murder. He was sentenced to fife imprisonment (hard 25), K.S.A. 22-3717(b)(1).

In the mid-afternoon on November 25, 1995, Kansas City, Kansas, police were dispatched to 25th and New Jersey, where they found a man in the driver’s seat of a red car backed into a telephone pole. He had blood coming from his mouth and no pulse. A folding cellular telephone was open in his lap. There was no one else around. The key was in the ignition, the engine was…