By Ned Seaton
Barry Wilkerson, the top criminal prosecutor in Riley County for more than two decades, is going to step away.
He won’t seek re-election for county attorney in 2028, he told The Mercury in an interview Monday.
He still gets satisfaction from the job, he said, but at age 62, “it’s just time for somebody else to take over,” he said. It’s tougher for him to work the hours that he said the job requires. He said he’d been thinking about stepping out for awhile, and after discussing it with family, he told people in his office this week and then The Mercury, saying he’d always tried to be transparent with the press and the public.
