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Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Brown’s Conviction | Wichita News
The Kansas Supreme Court has sealed Rico Brown Junior’s fate, upholding his life sentence for the 2023 murder of 16-year-old Elrecus Nolan Junior — with parole possible only after 51.5 years. Despite claims of courtroom chaos, juror bias, and prosecutorial missteps, the high court found no grounds for a new trial, dismissing all appeals. Brown remains locked up in Hutchinson, with his earliest release set for January 2075 — while his co-defendant, Patterson, already accepted a plea deal and will be out by September 2038. The case, rooted in a summer 2023 tragedy, now stands final. Listen in…
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