The Kansas Court of Appeals has affirmed a Riley County Court decision in a 2012 drug-related case. A jury convicted Antonio Hill of Manhattan of distributing a controlled substance. The matter was heard in Judge David Stutzman’s court room.
Hill contends the trial court should have provided the jury with a limiting instruction on prior crimes evidence and he argues the trial court erred in the way it considered his criminal history at sentencing.
However the higher court indicates based on independent review of all the identification evidence, the judges are firmly convinced the jury would not have reached a different verdict had a limiting instruction been given. In addition, the Court of Appeals finds no error in the trial court’s consideration of Hill’s criminal history at sentencing.
