Opinion
No. 109,646.
2014-02-28
STATE of Kansas, Appellee, v. Brandi SNYDER, Appellant.
I, therefore, do not consider what I see as difficult questions the majority, nonetheless, answers. And I do not join in those answers. So I express no opinion on whether the identical offense doctrine applies only to crimes codified in separate statutes and not to cognate crimes in a single statute. Likewise, I leave for later the notion that the doctrine can apply at all when the crime of conviction and the arguably identical offense are purely products of a plea bargain and have no direct factual basis in the events leading to the defendant being charged.