February 2024

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Kansas prosecutors seek right to enter evidence of prior bad acts in domestic violence trials

TOPEKA — Prosecutor Will Hurst said the scourge of domestic violence was so alarming — Johnson County alone has 1,100 pending cases — that Kansas lawmakers ought to allow admission of evidence at trial of a defendant’s propensity to commit domestic violence to better hold abusers accountable.The law in Kansas and most other states typically prohibited submitting evidence of a defendant’s prior bad acts because the information could bias a judge or jury against the accused.

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