Petition DENIED. (orders list)

Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED. (orders list)

Affidavit of indigency filed. (Distributed).

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 25, 2008.

Reply of petitioner Kansas filed.

Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent Lacey Rana Smith.

Brief of respondent Lacey Rana Smith in opposition filed.

Order extending time to file response to petition to and including October 27, 2008.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 25, 2008)

Kansas, Petitioner, represented by Stephen R. McAllister

Lacey Rana Smith, Respondent, represented by Randall Lee Hodgkinson

Lacey Rana Smith, Respondent, represented by Randall L. Hodgkinson