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KS prosecutor faces disciplinary hearing

By Associated Press

12/07/2020

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor who had two criminal convictions overturned is facing a disciplinary hearing for allegedly violating professional standards.

The Kansas Board of Attorney Discipline will hold a hearing this week to review the conduct of Jacque Spradling. She is a former Shawnee County prosecutor who now serves as the Bourbon County attorney and an assistant Allen county attorney.

Appeals courts criticized Spradling in rulings overturning a murder conviction and a sexual assault conviction. Both those cases are now set to be retried. Spradling is accused of making statements during her closing arguments that weren't supported by evidence at trial.

The sexual assault case was that of Jacob Ewing, of Holton.

Ewing had been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison after a Jackson County jury convicted him in June 2017 on multiple sex-related charges for alleged incidents occurring in 2014 and 2016. However, the state appeals court ruled in March 2019 that Spradling, serving as special prosecutor, erred in closing arguments by misstating the evidence that was presented to the jury and inflaming the passions of the jury. The appeals court overturned the sentence, ordering Ewing to return to Jackson County for retrial, which is set for the week of July 19, 2021.

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