Supreme Court of Kansas September 6, 2019, 116505 (State v. Boothby)

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS

No. 116,505

STATE OF KANSAS,

Appellee,

v.

CHRISTOPHER BOOTHBY,

Appellant.

SYLLABUS BY THE COURT

1.

An erroneous judicial comment made in front of the jury that is not a jury

instruction or legal ruling will, from now on, be reviewed as "judicial comment error"

under the constitutional harmlessness test from Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 87

S. Ct.