Make it three in a row for District Attorney Keith Schroeder. The Kansas Supreme Court once again has upheld the conviction and sentence in a child sex case.
Dean J. Boleyn Jr., was sentenced under Jessica’s Law and given a standard 25-years to life sentence. He apealed arguing that the court erred when they allowed the state to show homosexual photos which were found in his possession, this after he took the stand in his own defense and argued he is not gay. The defense also challenged the constitutionality of Jessica’s Law.
Boleyn had been accused of the 5-counts of aggravated indecent liberties which allegedly occurred between July of 2007, and February of 2009, but the jury found him guilty of only one. They had trouble with the additional four counts, when in the taped conversation between him and the boy presented to the jury, he repeatedly stated he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in prison for one mistake. One juror saying afterwords, they just couldn’t find the evidence for the other counts.
The Supreme Court in their ruling stated that he failed to show that the court erred on either issue and upheld the conviction.
This is the third time in three weeks that the court has ruled in favor of the local D-A’s office in a child sex case.