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Kansas Supreme Court Announces Complete and Wrongful Denial of Defendant’s Constitutional Right to Testify Constitutes ‘Structural Error’ and Reverses Convictions Where Defendant Removed From Stand and Entire Testimony Stricken

by Douglas Ankney

The Supreme Court of Kansas held that the complete and wrongful denial of criminal defendant John R. Cantu’s constitutional right to testify by removing him from the stand and striking his entire trial testimony constituted structural error and that the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the ...

 

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