TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Supreme Court Thursday reversed a Kansas Court of Appeals ruling vacating the conviction of Jason Gleason for battery of a state correctional officer in 2019 at Hutchinson Correctional Facility.
A panel of the Court of Appeals had reversed the conviction on grounds of prosecutorial errors on their own and connected with an erroneous jury instruction.
The Supreme Court though ruled prosecutors had shown no prejudice in that instruction was based on common law standards that applied when the Kansas Constitution was adopted.
In the 2019 incident an HCF officer sustained multiple injuries include a traumatic brain injury when he tried to subdue Gleason.
