Alva Review-Courier -

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Attorneys for a Kansas death row inmate convicted of killing his estranged wife, their two daughters and his wife's grandmother pressed the state's highest court Friday to toss out his conviction, arguing the trial judge mistakenly tilted the proceedings against him.

Defense attorney Meryl Carver-Allmond told the Kansas Supreme Court there's no question James Kraig Kahler carried out the room-by-room shooting rampage in 2009.

But Carver-Allmond suggested the trial judge overstepped, including questioning a witness in a way that "suggests the judge was helping the prosecutor...