State v. Reynolds

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 121,504 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. RYAN DAVID REYNOLDS, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. The State may charge a defendant with a single offense that can be committed in more than one way. This is called an alternative means crime. A district court presents an alternative means crime to a jury when its instructions incorporate a statute's multiple means for a charged crime's single statutory element. 2. K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 21-5807(b) describes alternative means for committing aggravated burglary that depend, in part, on where the crime…