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No. 101,953 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. PATRICK I. HOOD, Appellant.

SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. Issues involving multiplicity and statutory interpretation are questions of law over which an appellate court has unlimited review.

2. Multiplicity is the charging of a single offense in several counts of a complaint or information. The principal danger of multiplicity is that it creates the potential for multiple punishments for a single offense, which is prohibited by the Double Jeopardy Clauses of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and

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