HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A 28-year-old Kansas Department of Corrections inmate serving time for aggravated criminal sodomy and failure to register as a sex offender is facing a jury in Reno County on a charge of battery of a corrections officer.
Wyatt Brown is accused of striking a corrections officer while serving his sentence at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility back on Aug. 8, 2015. He’s accused of headbutting the officer during the altercation.
The charge is a level five person felony with a sentencing range between two years and seven months, to just over 11 years in prison.
Brown is currently serving time for the sodomy charge out of Brown County and any sentence handed down in Reno County would run consecutive to that.
According to the Kansas Department of Corrections website, as it stands now, he’s not eligible for parole until 2041.
The trial is being handled by District Judge Tim Chambers.