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- Title: Smith v. Deppish
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 01, 1991
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is a consolidated appeal by Oliver K. Smith, Jr., who was
convicted by a jury in Geary County of felony murder (K.S.A.
21-3401) and rape (K.S.A. 21-3502). He claims that (1) his
constitutional right and his statutory right to a speedy trial
under K.S.A. 22-3402 were violated; (2) the State violated his
right to equal protection in using two of its peremptory
challenges to strike blacks from the jury panel; and (3) the
trial court erred in admitting DNA profiling evidence. Smith
appeals both his conviction and the court's denial of his habeas
corpus petition. At 6:30 p.m. on October 26, 1986, Robert Prine returned to his
rural Marion County home from duck hunting. When Prine entered
the unlocked and darkened house, he saw his wife, Shelly, lying
on the living room floor in a pool of blood. Except for a shirt
and bra pushed up over her breasts, she was naked. Though shot
twice in the head, Shelly Prine was still alive. Robert Prine
went to a neighbor, Dana Gleason, to call for medical help.
Gleason, who accompanied Prine back home, observed a
small-caliber
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