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A SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT
Judge Kitts to sit with Supreme Court in historic session
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Barton County District Judge Hannelore Kitts addresses the court during the March motion hearing for murder suspect Adam Longoria. Kitts has been selected to sit in for an historic Kansas Supreme Court session April 13 in Salina. - photo by DALE HOGG Great Bend Tribune
Barton County District Judge Hannelore Kitts will be a part of history.Kitts and Dickinson County Judge Benjamin Sexton will be sitting with the state Supreme Court in its ground-breaking session April 13 in Salina as it hears appeals of four matters on the Court’s docket. The hearing marks the first session in which the Supreme Court is presiding at a location other than Topeka.The sessions, which will be conducted beginning at 1:30 p.m. in Room 107 in the Salina City County Building, are part of an on-going judicial outreach program in which the justices are reaching out to Kansas citizens across the state to educate and inform them of the operations of their highest court. Besides being open to the public, the oral arguments will be audio-streamed via the judicial branch website, www.kscourts.org.