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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 104,900 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. STACY ROBERT NEWCOMB, Appellant.

SYLLABUS BY THE COURT

1. The Kansas statute prohibiting rape, K.S.A. 21-3502,--which incorporates the statutory definition of sexual intercourse from K.S.A. 21-3501(1), as penetration of the female sex organ "by a finger, the male sex organ or any object"--does not create an alternative means crime.

2. The use of a phrase referencing the sexual desires "of either the child or the offender, or both" in the Kansas statute defining aggravated indecent liberties with a child, K.S.A. 21-3504, does not create an alternative means crime.

3. In this case, under the three prongs of the State v. Freeman, 223 Kan. 362, 367, 574 P.2d 950 (1978), proportionality test, the defendant's hard 25 life sentence under Jessica's Law for rape is not disproportional and so is not impermissible under

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