(KNZA)--A sentencing decision by a Brown County District Court Judge has been overturned by the Kansas Supreme Court.
The decision was made in response to Judge John Weingart’s sentencing of Wyatt Brown, who was originally sentenced in 2013 to a 30-year prison sentence after Brown pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated sodomy.
He was sentenced under provisions of “Jessica’s Law.”
According to a release from the Kansas Courts issued Friday, the Kansas Court of Appeals panel vacated Weingart’s decision, because he “had not followed the proper procedure in imposing the sentence.”
When the case was sent back to Weingart for resentencing, he leveled a penalty of 31-years behind bars for Brown.
The Supreme Court overturned Weingart’s decision because “the record of the resentencing demonstrated that Brown was punished for his successful exercise of his legal right to appeal.”
In it’s decision, the Kansas Supreme Court remanded Brown’s case to Brown County District Court for a second resentencing.
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