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McKune v. Lile, 536 U.S. 24 (2002), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court determined that Kansas' Sexual Abuse Treatment Program (SATP) served a vital penological purpose and determined that allowing minimal incentives to take part in the SATP does not equal compelled self-incrimination as prohibited by the Fifth Amendment.
The Governor of Kansas has the power of clemency in capital cases, which they may exercise after receiving a non-binding recommendation from a board. [8] In 2004, the Kansas Supreme Court in a 4 to 3 decision ruled that the state's death penalty statute was unconstitutional. [9] The decision was later reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Kansas v
This is a list of people executed in Kansas. No one has been executed by the state of Kansas since 1965, although capital punishment is legal there. Historically, 58 people have been executed in the area now occupied by the state. Many of these were federal executions of soldiers and POWs, often at the United States Disciplinary Barracks in ...
According to Kansas Bureau of Investigation’s official 2022 report, nearly 20% of seized assets in the state were taken from Black suspects; another 17% came from people of Hispanic origin ...
Lon Pishny, chair of the Finney County Board of Commissioners, said inmates in the county have a wait time of three to nine months for mental health evaluations or transferral to state-operated ...
Pro se legal representation ( / ˌproʊ ˈsiː / or / ˌproʊ ˈseɪ /) means to argue on one's own behalf in a legal proceeding, as a defendant or plaintiff in civil cases, or a defendant in criminal cases, rather than have representation from counsel or an attorney . The term pro se comes from Latin pro se, meaning "for oneself" or "on behalf ...
August 2, 2024 at 1:33 PM. Government employees at the state's child welfare agency are not destroying documents due to a directive from Attorney General Kris Kobach's office. A Kansas Department ...
In re Hendricks, 259 Kan. 246, 912 P.2d 129 (1996); cert. granted, 518 U.S. 1004 (1996). Kansas v. Hendricks, 521 U.S. 346 (1997), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court set forth procedures for the indefinite civil commitment of prisoners who are convicted of a sex offense and are deemed by the state to be dangerous because ...