TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Supreme Court announced its docket for the rest of the month. It includes a case from Reno County.
The state has requested a petition of review in the case against Grant Wilson.
He was convicted of one count of aggravated indecent solicitation of a child for a case from 2007. On appeal, Wilson contended the district court’s order for lifetime post-release supervision was grossly disproportionate to his offense and unconstitutional.
Wilson also alleges that he was prejudiced from prosecutor’s misstatements made at the post-sentencing hearing. At that hearing, the district court imposed the lifetime post-release supervision.
A Court of Appeals panel majority ruled that the prosecutor committed reversible misconduct during the post-sentencing hearing when they argued facts not in evidence and incorrectly stated the facts from an appellate case.
The dissent stated the court should have ordered the parties to address what should be the appropriate standard of review for claims of prosecutor error arising during argument to the bench.
The high court must decide whether the prosecutor in the case committed planned, prejudicial and reversible misconduct.
The case will be considered Oct. 24 at the Kansas Judicial Center in Topeka.
Wilson is on parole for post-incarceration.