Kansas court lets stand inmate's pleas in double killing
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May 28, 2017
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has rejected an inmate's bid to withdraw his no-contest pleas in a 2003 attack that killed two women and wounded a third.
Friday's ruling rejected 44-year-old King Phillip Amman Reu-El's claims that a Shawnee County judge misinformed him about appellate rights that would be waived by making the pleas.
Amman Reu-El was convicted in 2005 of capital murder and other charges in the Topeka shooting deaths, and he was sentenced to death. Those convictions were overturned, and Reu-El entered his no-contest pleas at retrial.
He's now serving a life sentence...
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