Kansas Supreme Court

And initially, the trial court agreed, and then the Court of Appeals reversed that decision in June of 2025.

The Kansas Supreme Court then agreed to review the case, and the October 20 docket review listed it as having been heard.

On October 30th, we checked the official database of published and unpublished decisions.

It returned only the earlier court of appeals opinion with no released Supreme Court decision for this case.

It then got raised.

But there was a challenge to the Kansas Supreme Court and the Supreme Kansas Supreme Court actually found the statute wrong.

was not constitutional because it took away the power of the jury to decide damages, because regardless of what the jury found, if they found that the pain and suffering damages were a million dollars, the judge would cut that down to 250.

So that case came through.

And that's pretty much on point, isn't it? Colby wasn't done yet though.

Because in a conviction like this, it goes straight to the Kansas Supreme Court for an appeal.

So it skips the appeals court.

And of course, his defense attorney raised a bunch of different issues about Dr. Christensen, about the doll, things they thought should not have been heard by the jury.

Vineyard USA filed its own request for review on July 28, 2025.

On October 17, the Kansas Supreme Court agreed to review the case, granting a request from Vineyard USA, the local church, and Mark Warner and Robert Bloom.

In plain English, the state's highest court agreed to take another look.

Agreeing to review a case does not tell us which side will win.

Jean, anything you wanna add to that?

Yes, and I, I can't believe I just thought of this, but you know, um, Laura Kelly, being in office for eight years, has had five opportunities to nominate, uh, people to the Kansas Supreme Court.

Yes, she has.

Mm.

... having Ty Masterson as our governor would just be tremendous.

Yes.

Um, and, and when you think about all the damage that has been done as a result of our Kansas Supreme Court's 2019 ruling, creating this so-called right to abortion, uh, unlimited, very, very extreme decision, um, you know, with our abortion numbers going up nearly 200%, um, you know, just, just all of our laws just facing the, uh, court challenges and many of them being struck down, it's, it's imperative-

Mm

So I've read a lot of, you know, opinions overturning wrongful convictions, whatever, but this one was quite special.

It was a unanimous ruling by the Kansas Supreme Court that said this prosecutor who had sent this woman away had made up evidence, had lied to the jury, you know, all sorts of shit.

Um, and, you know, so they overturn him based on that misconduct, and they, you know, and then the n- you know, new DA, now the third DA out in Topeka, decides, "Well, I'm obligated to go ahead and retry her," and they do.

Um, but it turns out that Eileen, gal in her pajamas, a woman I come to call Pen Pal 'cause she can't stop fucking writing me, um, the, uh, she's married to an ex-trash man from Alma.

Um, [clears throat] but two things.

One is, so the Supre- Kansas Supreme Court, in a nine-nothing ruling, so a unanimous ruling, overturns and sends the cases back to the trial court.

But they are, as justices of the Supreme Court in Kansas, they are authorized to have filed some kind of ethics complaint against the prosecutor, right? This person that they just fucking laid out in this decision.

But of course, they don't do that.

as they should be, and we're very grateful that Chris Kobach is doing that, and we need to make sure he stays in that position.

So what happens next? What decision is the judge being asked to make at this stage? When might we get a ruling, and could this ultimately, sadly, end up before the Kansas Supreme Court?

So there is still another day of arguments on Wednesday.

So I have to go back to Douglas County again, um, because the judge isn't broadcasting, um, the proceedings.