KS-SEN: Roger Marshall was convicted of reckless driving in 2008. Here's how it was erased

[RandySF]

On Christmas Eve 2008, court documents show, Assistant Barton County Attorney Carey Fleske approached a district court judge with a request: erase Roger Marshall’s conviction that fall for reckless driving and replace it with a lesser charge.

The judge agreed, turning a suspended jail sentence for the future Kansas Congressman and Republican U.S. Senate candidate into a slap on the wrist.

But Fleske was more than a prosecutor. He was also the son of Marshall’s business partner and neighbor.

Marshall was originally charged with reckless driving and battery after a May 2008 encounter where he was accused of hitting a Great Bend resident with his truck. A civil lawsuit over the episode was settled out of court. Marshall has always denied hitting the man.

The incident surfaced during Marshall’s 2016 campaign for Congress, when Rep. Tim Huelskamp released an ad featuring audio of the 911 phone call. Marshall’s connection to the prosecutor was never reported. After a handful of stories, the matter faded from view and Marshall went on to win the western Kansas seat.

Four years later, as Marshall, 59, introduces himself to voters statewide as a Senate candidate, questions remain about why Barton County moved to reduce the charge against him after his conviction.

Marshall’s campaign has offered little explanation for the reduction in charges or the candidate’s ties to the prosecutor. The campaign also refused a request by The Star to release an affidavit in the criminal case that would likely contain a law enforcement narrative of the incident.



https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article243602707.html

[beachbumbob]

1. Marshall is another Kobach type and the moderate republicans will NOT vote for, this

seat may be a democratic pickup that so far is flying under the radar.