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- Title: State v. Williams
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 08, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by The primary issue is the district court's denial of David L. Williams' motion to withdraw his plea of nolo contendere. Williams pled to first-degree premeditated murder, aggravated kidnapping, rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, and other charges. Our jurisdiction is under K.S.A. 22-3601(b)(1) (Williams was convicted of first-degree murder, an off-grid crime). Additional issues are whether the district court erred in: (a) denying Williams' request for funds to hire a psychologist to present evidence in mitigation; (b) finding that Williams' counsel was effective; (c) determining that the notice requirements of K.S A. 1993 Supp. 21-4624 (the hard 40) were complied with, and (d) completing the pronouncement of sentence after Williams was removed from the courtroom for disruptive behavior. Williams also