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NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION
No. 118,087
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS
STATE OF KANSAS,
Appellee,
v.
JOSHUA KRINHOP,
a/k/a JOSHUA GOODMAN,
Appellant.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Appeal from Geary District Court; STEVEN L. HORNBAKER, judge. Opinion filed August 31,
2018. Affirmed.
Randall L. Hodgkinson, of Kansas Appellate Defender Office, for appellant.
Lloyd R. Graham, assistant county attorney, and Derek Schmidt, attorney general, for appellee.
Before SCHROEDER, P.J., LEBEN, J., and BURGESS, S.J.
PER CURIAM: Joshua Krinhop appeals his conviction of felony fleeing or eluding
a police officer while committing five or more moving violations under K.S.A. 2015
Supp. 8-1568(b)(1)(E). Krinhop claims that the fleeing or eluding statute is
unconstitutionally vague because it does not define "moving violation," and there's no
consistent definition of "moving violation" in the Kansas statute. Under any definition in
Kansas law, Krinhop's offenses—speeding, failing to signal, and running through red
lights and stop signs—are "moving violations." Because the statute put Krinhop on
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sufficient notice that his acts were prohibited, the statute is not unconstitutionally vague
as applied to him.
Krinhop argues that the jury instructions were clearly erroneous because they did
not define "moving violation." Krinhop also argues that the elements instruction for
felony fleeing or eluding should have specified that the moving violations must occur
during a police pursuit. The jury instructions in this case mirror the Pattern Instructions in
Kansas (PIK) and accurately stated the law and informed the jury the moving violations
had to occur after a police signal to stop. Krinhop is correct, however, that the district
court should have instructed the jury on the lesser-included crime of misdemeanor fleeing
or eluding. Notwithstanding, the error is not reversible because Krinhop has not shown
that giving a lesser-included offense instruction would have made any difference in the
jury's verdict.
Krinhop challenges statements made by the prosecution during opening and
closing arguments. The prosecutor should not have said that Krinhop was "a danger to
[the] community," or that the State would not consider Krinhop's moving violations that
occurred before a police pursuit to "give [Krinhop] the benefit of the doubt." But the
prosecutor's errors do not require reversal because there is no reasonable possibility that
the errors contributed to the jury's verdict.
Last, Krinhop claims that cumulative trial error requires reversal of his conviction.
The evidence that Krinhop committed felony fleeing or eluding by committing five or
more moving violations during police pursuit was substantial, and there is no evidence
that a different outcome would have been reached but for any errors.
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All of Krinhop's arguments fail and the district court's ruling is affirmed.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Geary County Deputy Clint Arnold was patrolling at 11:34 p.m. the evening of
June 18, 2016, when he began to follow a Dodge Durango driven by Krinhop. With
Deputy Arnold following, Krinhop drove at 45 miles per hour through a construction
zone with a 25-mile-per-hour speed limit. Deputy Arnold switched on his lights and
siren, but Krinhop did not pull over.
Deputy Arnold followed Krinhop with his siren and lights on for about eight
minutes during which time Krinhop ran through stop signs and a red light (at one point
almost hitting a car in the intersection), failed to signal his turns, and drove over the
speed limit. Krinhop finally stopped driving once he reached the parking lot of a Motel 6
where he was staying, and Deputy Arnold ordered Krinhop out of the car and onto the
ground.
Another officer found a tube with white powder, which was later identified as
methamphetamine, on the ground next to Krinhop. The State charged Krinhop with
felony fleeing or eluding a police officer, driving with a suspended license, possession of
drug paraphernalia, and possession of methamphetamine.
At trial, Deputy Arnold testified that Krinhop committed the following moving
violations between the time he signaled Krinhop to pull over and the time Krinhop parked
in the Motel 6 parking lot:
Turned without using a signal onto Bittersweet;
Turned without a signal onto Holly;
Turned without a signal onto Tamerisk Drive;
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Drove 35 miles per hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone;
Turned without a signal on Ash;
Did not come to a complete stop at a stop sign;
Drove through a red light at an intersection and nearly hit another car;
Drove 35 to 40 miles per hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone;
Turned without a signal onto Sandusky;
Drove 40 miles per hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone;
Turned without using a signal on Lacy Drive;
Did not come to a complete stop at a stop sign;
Turned without a signal into Motel 6;
Turned without a signal into the Sapp Brothers' parking lot;
Turned left around a parked vehicle without a signal; and
Turned without a signal back into Motel 6.
The State played the patrol-car video for the jury, which showed the entire police
chase.
To establish a violation of felony fleeing or eluding, the State was required to
prove that Krinhop committed five or more moving violations during police pursuit. See
K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 8-1568(b)(1)(E). The district court instructed the jury it had to find
that Krinhop committed five or more of a combination of the following violations after he
was signaled to stop:
Operating a vehicle above the posted speed limit;
Failure to stop at the marked line at a red light;
Failure to signal before a turn; and
Failure to stop at a stop sign.
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The jury convicted Krinhop of fleeing or eluding while making five or more moving
violations during the pursuit and driving with a suspended license but acquitted him of
possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of methamphetamine. Krinhop received
12 months of probation with an underlying 12-month prison sentence.
Krinhop timely appeals his conviction for felony fleeing or eluding.
K.S.A. 2015 SUPP. 8-1568(b)(1)(E) IS NOT UNCONSTITUTIONALLY
VAGUE AS APPLIED TO KRINHOP.
The jury convicted Krinhop of felony fleeing or eluding a police officer under
K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 8-1568(b)(1)(E), based in part on the State's allegation that he
committed five or more moving violations during police pursuit. Krinhop argues that
"moving violations" is unclear and makes the fleeing or eluding statute unconstitutionally
vague as applied to him.
Krinhop failed to raise the issue before the district court. Generally, an issue not
raised before the district court is waived or abandoned unless:
"(1) The newly asserted theory involves only a question of law arising on proved or
admitted facts and is determinative of the case; (2) consideration of the theory is
necessary to serve the ends of justice or to prevent denial of fundamental rights; and (3)
the district court is right for the wrong reason. [Citations omitted.]" State v. Phillips, 299
Kan. 479, 493, 325 P.3d 1095 (2014).
Krinhop claims his vagueness argument is both a question of law submitted on
proved or admitted facts, and this court's consideration of the issue is necessary to
prevent the denial of his constitutional right to due process. Krinhop is correct on this
issue permitting the consideration of his claim of vagueness despite not lodging an
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objection at trial. See State v. White, 53 Kan. App. 2d 44, 55, 384 P.3d 13 (2016)
(agreeing to consider vagueness challenge for first time on appeal).
Whether a statute is constitutional is a question of law subject to unlimited review.
This court presumes that statutes are constitutional and resolves all doubts in favor of
passing constitutional muster. If there is any reasonable way to construe a statute as
constitutionally valid, this court has both the authority and duty to do so. State v.
Bollinger, 302 Kan. 309, 318, 352 P.3d 1003 (2015).
A criminal statute is unconstitutionally vague if it fails to provide a person of
ordinary intelligence fair notice of what is prohibited or if it fails to protect citizens from
arbitrary enforcement of the law. State v. McCune, 299 Kan. 1216, 1235, 330 P.3d 1107
(2014). Courts engage in a two-step test to determine whether a criminal statute is
unconstitutionally vague: "(1) whether the statute gives fair warning to those potentially
subject to it, and (2) whether it adequately guards against arbitrary and unreasonable
enforcement." Bollinger, 302 Kan. at 318.
The fleeing or eluding statute, K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 8-1568, is found in the Uniform
Act Regulating Traffic; Rules of the Road, K.S.A. 8-1501 et seq. The Act Regulating
Traffic sets out Kansas traffic offenses. The offense of fleeing or eluding prohibits a
driver from willfully failing or refusing to bring his or her vehicle to a stop for a pursuing
police officer when the driver is given a signal to do so. A first-time conviction of fleeing
or eluding a police officer is a misdemeanor. It becomes a severity level 9 person felony
upon the third conviction, or when the driver "commits five or more moving violations"
during the police pursuit. K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 8-1568(b)(1)(E); K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 8-
1568(c)(1)(C).
Krinhop says that "moving violations" in the fleeing or eluding statute is unclear.
It is true that K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 8-1568 does not define "moving violation," and it does
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not refer to any other statutory definition of moving violations. See State v. Richardson,
290 Kan. 176, 180, 224 P.3d 553 (2010); State v. Castleberry, 48 Kan. App. 2d 469, 481,
293 P.3d 757 (2013). At first blush, it may seem that "moving violation" is a matter of
common knowledge without a need for a definition. A statute that "employs words
commonly used, previously judicially defined, or hav[e] a settled meaning in law" will
not be declared void for vagueness. City of Wichita v. Hackett, 275 Kan. 848, 853-54, 69
P.3d 621 (2003). But the definition of "moving violation" is not a matter of common
knowledge and does not have a settled meaning in law. There are conflicting definitions
of "moving violations." See Richardson, 290 Kan. at 180 ("[T]he definition of a moving
violation is not intuitive.").
In the context of regulating motor carriers, the Kansas Corporation Commission
defines moving violations as "the commission or omission of an act by a person operating
a motor vehicle that could result in injury or property damage and that is also a violation
of a statute, ordinance, or regulation of this state or any other jurisdiction." K.A.R. 82-4-
1(22). In the context of regulating drivers' licenses, the Kansas Department of Revenue
lists specific statutory violations that qualify as moving violations. See K.A.R. 92-52-
9(a). Rather than provide an exhaustive definition, K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 8-1560c identifies
certain traffic violations that are excluded from the definition of "moving violations" for
the purposes of revoking or suspending a driver's license, including any speeding offense
within 6 to 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.
Regardless of which definition is used, all of Krinhop's offenses—speeding,
failing to stop at a red light and stop sign, and failing to signal a turn—were "moving
violations." See K.A.R. 92-52-9(I) (failure to stop at a red light); K.A.R. 92-52-9(K)
(failure to stop at a stop sign); K.A.R. 92-52-9(P) (failure to signal before a turn); K.A.R.
92-52-9(Q) (speeding); K.A.R. 82-4-1(t). There was no risk of confusion to Krinhop
despite conflicting definitions and no need to provide any additional definition of
"moving violation." Although the definition of "moving violations" may not be a matter
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of common knowledge, the statute provided sufficient notice to Krinhop that speeding,
failing to stop at a red light and stop sign, and failing to signal a turn were prohibited
once Deputy Arnold signaled for him to stop. Thus, K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 8-1568 is not
unconstitutionally vague as applied to Krinhop.
THE DISTRICT COURT'S JURY INSTRUCTION FOR FELONY FLEEING OR ELUDING
WAS NOT CLEARLY ERRONEOUS.
Krinhop challenges the district court's jury instructions on his felony fleeing or
eluding charge. He argues that the district court erred by: not including a definition of
"moving violation" for the jury; not instructing the jury on an element of the crime; and
failing to instruct on the lesser-included offense of misdemeanor fleeing and eluding.
Krinhop did not challenge the jury instructions at trial and did not request
instructions on the definition of "moving violation" or a lesser-included offense
instruction. When the party challenging a jury instruction on appeal failed to raise the
issue before the district court, the clearly erroneous standard of review applies. This
standard is a two-step review that requires this court to first determine whether the
proposed instructions were legally and factually appropriate, employing an unlimited
review of the entire record. If the district court erred by not including the instruction, the
defendant must then firmly convince the court that the jury would have reached a
different result without the error. State v. Williams, 295 Kan. 506, 510, 286 P.3d 195
(2012).
Krinhop argues the district court should have defined "moving violation" for the
jury. The issue of defining "moving violation" for the jury in this case is effectively moot.
The district court's failure to give a definition had no effect on the jury's verdict. As
discussed above, each of Krinhop's offenses were "moving violations" under any
definition in Kansas law. See Castleberry, 48 Kan. App. 2d at 482 (finding that failure to
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list elements of each moving violation did not affect jury verdict because under any
definition in Kansas law, each offense was a "moving violation"). Furthermore, Krinhop
makes no argument that including a definition would have somehow changed the jury's
verdict against him.
Krinhop also claims the district court's jury instruction, which mirrored the PIK
for felony fleeing or eluding, was deficient because it did not clarify that Krinhop had to
commit five or more moving violations during police pursuit. In accordance with the
PIK, the district court instructed the jury that it had to find that:
"1. The defendant was driving a motor vehicle.
"2. The defendant was given a visual or audible signal by a police officer to
bring the motor vehicle to a stop.
"3. The defendant willfully failed or refused to bring the motor vehicle to a stop
for, or otherwise fled or attempted to elude, a pursuing police vehicle[.]
"4. The police officer's vehicle, from which the signal to stop was given, was
appropriately marked showing it to be an official police vehicle.
"5. The defendant committed five or more moving violations.
"6. The act occurred on June 19, 2016 . . . .
"The State must prove that the defendant committed the crime intentionally. . . ."
The Kansas Supreme Court "strongly recommend[s] the use of PIK instructions,
which knowledgeable committees develop to bring accuracy, clarity, and uniformity to
[jury] instructions." State v. Barber, 302 Kan. 367, 377-78, 353 P.3d 1108 (2015). The
instructions here accurately stated the law and informed the jury that the moving
violations had to occur after a police signal to stop. See State v. Dupree, 304 Kan. 377,
394, 373 P.3d 811 (2016) (applying rule that appellate courts read jury instructions as a
whole in order to determine whether they properly and fairly state the applicable law or
whether they could have misled the jury). When read sequentially, the instructions tell the
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jury it must first find that the officer signaled Krinhop to stop, and that thereafter Krinhop
committed five or more moving violations.
To ensure the jury found that he committed the moving violations during the
police pursuit, Krinhop also argues the district court should have given a limiting
instruction telling the jury it could not consider any moving violations he may have
committed before the police pursuit. Since the instructions given accurately state the jury
was to consider moving violations that occurred after the police pursuit began, there is
really no need to give the instructions Krinhop claims were necessary. Even if one were
to assume it was error for the district court not to give a limiting instruction, it was not
reversible error. Krinhop has not shown that giving a limiting instruction would have
made any difference in the jury's verdict. Instead, evidence from Deputy Arnold's
testimony and the patrol-car video strongly supports a finding that Krinhop committed
five or more violations during the police pursuit. (In actuality it was 16 in total.) See State
v. Molina, 299 Kan. 651, 661, 325 P.3d 1142 (2014) (holding that failure to give limiting
instruction not clearly erroneous because the jury heard substantial evidence of
defendant's guilt).
Finally, Krinhop argues the district court should have given a lesser-included
offense instruction for misdemeanor fleeing and eluding. A lesser-included-offense
instruction is legally appropriate when the lesser crime is an included offense of the crime
charged and is factually appropriate when some evidence would reasonably justify
convicting the defendant of the lesser-included crime. K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 22-3414(3);
State v. Armstrong, 299 Kan. 405, 432, 324 P.3d 1052 (2014). Here, misdemeanor fleeing
or eluding is an included offense of felony fleeing or eluding because all the elements of
misdemeanor offense are also elements of the felony offense. Compare K.S.A. 2015
Supp. 8-1568(a) with K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 8-1568(b)(1)(E); K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 21-5109(b)
(defining lesser offense). Thus, the lesser-included-offense instruction was legally
appropriate. The lesser-included-offense instruction was factually appropriate because the
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evidence presented at trial could support a conviction of misdemeanor fleeing or eluding.
See State v. Breeden, 297 Kan. 567, 573, 304 P.3d 660 (2013).
Because the misdemeanor fleeing or eluding instruction was legally and factually
supported, it was error for the district court not to give it. See K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 22-
3414(3) (providing that court must give instruction on lesser included crime when some
evidence would reasonably justify conviction). Even so, the error was not clearly
erroneous. Krinhop bears the burden of firmly convincing this court that the jury would
have convicted him of misdemeanor fleeing or eluding rather than felony fleeing or
eluding had the district court given the instruction. State v. Plummer, 295 Kan. 156, Syl.
¶ 1, 283 P.3d 202 (2012). The evidence that Krinhop committed five or more moving
violations during the police pursuit was substantial. Deputy Arnold testified that Krinhop
committed 16 specific violations during police pursuit, and the jury watched the patrol-
car video which supported the deputy's testimony. Krinhop has not shown that giving a
misdemeanor fleeing or eluding instruction would have made any difference in the jury's
verdict.
DID THE PROSECUTOR COMMIT PROSECUTORIAL ERROR?
Krinhop claims the prosecution committed three errors during opening and closing
arguments warranting reversal of his convictions: making comments appealing to
community interests; misstating the law; and giving a personal opinion on Krinhop's
guilt.
Krinhop did not object to the prosecutor's statements during opening and closing
arguments. Generally, a defendant must timely object to evidence at trial to preserve the
issue for appeal. K.S.A. 60-404; State v. King, 288 Kan. 333, 349, 204 P.3d 585 (2009).
This court will review a prosecutor's comments made during opening and closing
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statements for prosecutorial error even without timely objection. State v. Sean, 306 Kan.
963, 974, 399 P.3d 168 (2017).
When a defendant claims he or she has been deprived of the right to a fair trial by
some act of the prosecutor, this court must engage in a two-step inquiry. State v. Butler,
307 Kan. 831, Syl. ¶ 5, 416 P.3d 116 (2018); State v. Sherman, 305 Kan. 88, Syl. ¶ 6, 378
P.3d 1060 (2016). First, this court must decide if the prosecutorial acts complained of fall
outside the wide latitude afforded prosecutors to present the State's case and obtain a
conviction in a way that does not offend the defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial.
If it determined that such an act did occur, this court must next determine whether the
error prejudiced the defendant's due-process rights to a fair trial. If such an error did
occur the State may argue harmless error by establishing there is no reasonable
possibility that the error contributed to the verdict. 305 Kan. at 109.
Krinhop first claims that the prosecutor improperly appealed to community
interests and inflamed the passions of the jury with these comments:
"And we pick citizens of Geary County. I live here. You're citizens here. Like,
when he went across that intersection, going across 77, through a red light, cars were
swerving and stuff? That's dangerous. I don't care if he was only going 30 or 35 miles an
hour at that time. . . . He failed to yield right-of-way. . . .
. . . .
". . . I don't care how fast or slow he was going, he committed over five
violations, he was a danger to our community."
Prosecutors enjoy wide latitude in conducting the State's case and seeking to
obtain a conviction. Butler, 307 Kan. 831, Syl. ¶ 5. The prosecutor may make reasonable
inferences based on the evidence but may not argue facts not in evidence, make
statements that inflame the passions or prejudices of the jury, or distract the jury from its
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duty to make decisions based on the evidence and the controlling law. State v. Killings,
301 Kan. 214, Syl. ¶ 5, 340 P.3d 1186 (2015).
Here, the prosecutor's comment that Krinhop's speeding was dangerous was a
permissible inference drawn from the evidence and within the wide latitude afforded a
prosecutor. See 301 Kan. 214, Syl. ¶ 5. The statement that Krinhop was "a danger to [the]
community" went too far. Making comments that inferentially ask the jury to render a
verdict to protect the community are improper. Bullock v. BNSF Ry. Co., 306 Kan. 916,
943-44, 399 P.3d 148 (2017); State v. Finley, 273 Kan. 237, 245, 42 P.3d 723 (2002).
The State concedes this point.
Notwithstanding, the comment that Krinhop was "a danger to [the] community"
did not prejudice his right to a fair trial. There's no indication that the jury rendered its
verdict based on the prosecutor's statement rather than on the evidence. The jury asked to
view the patrol-car video of the pursuit during deliberations, indicating that it considered
the evidence closely and based its verdict on that evidence. Also, when the comment is
considered in light of the entire record and the strong evidence of guilt, there is no
reasonable possibility that the error contributed to the verdict. The error is not reversible
error.
Next, Krinhop suggests that the prosecutor misstated the law during closing
argument. When discussing Krinhop's moving violations, the prosecutor stated:
"I'm going to step over here for just a moment. And these are my notes. This is
not evidence. . . . Now, what I have here is, I had a speeding in a construction zone twice,
no turn signal, a red light. Now, these were before the lights and siren were turned on. So
what I'm going to do, to give him the benefit of the doubt, I'm going to cross these off.
These happened before the red lights and sirens came on. Okay? So I'm taking those
away."
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In every criminal case, the burden is on the State to prove every element of the
charged crime beyond a reasonable doubt. Miller v. State, 298 Kan. 921, Syl. ¶ 5, 318
P.3d 155 (2014). An element of felony fleeing or eluding is that the defendant commit
five or more moving violations during a police pursuit. K.S.A. 2015 Supp. 8-
1568(b)(1)(E). As Krinhop argues, the jury could not count moving violations from
before the police pursuit against him. Instead, the State had the burden of proving five or
more moving violations during the police pursuit beyond a reasonable doubt. Thus, it was
inaccurate to say that setting aside prepursuit violations was only to "give [Krinhop] the
benefit of the doubt."
A prosecutor commits prosecutorial error if he or she misstates the law. See State
v. McBride, 307 Kan. 60, 65-66, 405 P.3d 1196 (2017) (finding that prosecutor
committed error by misstating the defendant's presumption of innocence); State v.
Pribble, 304 Kan. 824, 833, 375 P.3d 966 (2016). A prosecutor also commits error by
making arguments that dilute the State's burden of proof. State v. Thomas, 307 Kan. 733,
743, 415 P.3d 430 (2018). The prosecutor's statement here was made in error because it
distracted the jury from the State's burden to prove that Krinhop committed five or more
moving violations during the police pursuit.
At this point in the analysis, the State has the burden to prove beyond a reasonable
doubt that the error did not affect the outcome of the trial in light of the entire record.
Sherman, 305 Kan. 88, Syl. ¶ 8. As the State points out, the district court properly
instructed the jury to find, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Krinhop committed five or
more of a combination the following violations after he was signaled to stop:
Operating a vehicle above the posted speed limit;
Failure to stop at the marked line at a red light;
Failure to signal before a turn; and
Failure to stop at a stop sign.
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The jury was also instructed that it should consider only the evidence and exhibits
admitted into evidence, and that statements of counsel were not evidence. Also, the State
reminded the jury that it had to find Krinhop guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Finally,
the evidence that Krinhop committed the instructed offenses during the police pursuit was
overwhelming. See Sherman, 305 Kan. at 111 ("The focus of the inquiry is on the impact
of the error on the verdict. While the strength of the evidence against the defendant may
secondarily impact this analysis one way or the other, it must not become the primary
focus of the inquiry."). There is no indication the jury considered prepursuit violations
when rendering its verdict or that it was confused as to the State's burden. The State has
met its burden to show there is no reasonable possibility that the prosecutor's error
contributed to the jury's verdict.
Last, Krinhop claims that the prosecutor committed error in opening argument by
stating, "At the end, I'm going to ask you to find him guilty as charged. Naturally, if the
State did not believe they could prove it, we wouldn't be here." Krinhop argues that the
prosecutor's statement conveyed a personal belief that Krinhop was guilty. A prosecutor's
personal view is irrelevant to the task before a jury, and the inclusion of these views may
be considered error in some circumstances. See State v. Charles, 304 Kan. 158, 173, 372
P.3d 1109 (2016), abrogated on other grounds by State v. Huey, 306 Kan. 1005, 399 P.3d
211 (2017). But the prosecutor did not say he believed Krinhop was guilty—he said that
the State thought it could be successful at trial. See Charles, 304 Kan. at 174 (recognizing
that prosecutor's phrase "I think" susceptible to misconduct challenge). It is fairly
intuitive that the State would not pursue a case that it thought it would lose. The comment
did not fall outside the wide range of permissible statements and did not constitute
prosecutorial error.
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DID CUMULATIVE ERROR DEPRIVE KRINHOP OF A FAIR TRIAL?
Finally, Krinhop suggests that, even if individual assigned errors were not so
egregious as to warrant reversal, when viewed collectively they denied him his right to a
fair trial.
The test for reversible cumulative error is "'whether the totality of circumstances
substantially prejudiced the defendant and denied the defendant a fair trial. No prejudicial
error may be found under this cumulative effect rule, however, if the evidence is
overwhelming against the defendant.' [Citations omitted.]" State v. Williams, 299 Kan.
1039, 1050, 329 P.3d 420 (2014). Despite any errors, Krinhop was not substantially
prejudiced or denied a fair trial. The evidence that Krinhop committed five or more
moving violations during the police pursuit was substantial. Deputy Arnold testified that
Krinhop committed 16 violations: 10 failing to signal, 3 speeding, 2 running through stop
signs, and 1 running through a red light. The jury watched the patrol-car video supporting
Deputy Arnold's testimony. The video showed Krinhop ran through a red light (almost
hitting a car in the intersection), sped through residential neighborhoods, failed to signal
before turning, and ran through two stop signs. There was no cumulative error at trial.
Affirmed.