Kahler V Kansas Case Brief 2025. James kahler (defendant) was convicted of capital murder in kansas after killing four family members. Under kansas law, a jury cannot consider mental disease or defect as a defense to a crime except insofar as it shows “that the defendant lacked the mental state required as an element.
Petitioner will file the reply brief on the merits on or before august 30, 2019. Kahler appealed to the kansas supreme court.38 he argued that his conviction violated the due process clause and that his death sentence was proscribed by the eighth amendment’s ban.
