Per Curiam : This is the fourth school finance decision involving these parties and Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution, which imposes a duty on the legislature to "make suitable provision for finance of the educational interests of the state." Kan. Const. art. 6, 6(b). The plaintiffs filed suit in 2010 asserting that the State violated this constitutional requirement by inequitable and inadequate funding of K-12 public education. A three-judge panel was appointed to hear the case...
The opinion of the court was delivered by Biles , J. : This case returns after the United States Supreme Court reversed and remanded our penalty-phase determination in State v. Gleason, 299 Kan. 1127, 329 P.3d 1102 (2014) ( Gleason I ), rev'd and remanded sub nom. Kansas v. Carr, 577 U.S. ___, 136 S.Ct. 633 , 193 L.Ed.2d 535 (2016). That requires us to address the unresolved penalty-phase issues from Sidney J. Gleason's capital murder trial. As explained, Gleason is not entitled to...
