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New Trial Ordered in 2000 Atchison Co. Murder

By Associated Press/Joel Hardy

12/05/2014

Kirk Wilson

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP/KAIR)--A man convicted of murder in a 2000 death in Atchison County will get a new trial.

     A Kansas Court of Appeals panel said in an opinion issued Friday that it upheld a county court's decision to order a new trial for Kirk Wilson in the March 2000 shotgun death of 38-year-old Kurt Boldridge.

     The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Wilson is serving a Hard 25 sentence after being convicted in 2001. The Atchison County court ordered a new trial last year, saying Wilson's attorney was ineffective. The state appealed that ruling.

     Boldridge was shot in the head as he slept at his rural Atchison home in March 2000. Wilson was one of four people, including the victim's ex-wife Lisa Boldridge, who were convicted in the homicide.

Lisa Boldridge will be back in an Atchison County District courtroom on January 5th for a status hearing concerning her re sentencing in the case. The hearing has been continued three times since August.

She was initially handed a “Hard 50” sentence of life in prison in February 2001 after her conviction of first degree murder in the case. Her re sentencing is the result of the Kansas Supreme Court's ruling that “Hard 50” candidates should be sentenced by a jury, not a judge.

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