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- Title: State v. Pennington
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 04, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by The defendant, Aaron Pennington, appeals from his convictions
of first-degree murder and aggravated burglary. He contends that
the trial court erred (1) by admitting evidence of an
experimental shooting test; (2) by failing to instruct the jury
that it must not draw inferences from the defendant's failure to
testify; (3) by instructing the jury on aiding and abetting; and
(4) by failing to give the cautionary jury instruction on the
testimony of a paid informant. Finding no reversible error, we
affirm. On July 20, 1991, David Brown discovered his mother's body in
her bed when he stopped by her home to check on her. Laura Brown
had been shot three times in the head with a .22 caliber weapon.
The police discovered a pillow from the living room couch in a
chair next to the front door. The pillow had bullet holes in it,
and police surmised the killer had used it to muffle the sound of
the shots. There were no signs of forced entry, and nothing of
value had been taken from the house, although the victim's purse
had been emptied onto the bed beside her body.
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