Supreme Court of Kansas June 25, 2004, No. 89,127 (State v. Huynh)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beier, J.;

Movant Tuan Huynh entered a no contest plea to a first-degree felony murder charge in 1996 and received a life sentence. He appeals the district court’s September 2001 rejection of his motion to withdraw his plea.

The defendant fired a gun multiple times into a group of five or six people leaving a restaurant, killing Charles J. Smith.