Derek Gormly continues his legal challenge of his sentence for illegal sexual activity with a teenager.
Gormly has a hearing at 1:15 pm Wednesday in Lyon County District Court. He says his sentence violates both the US and Kansas constitutions, accusing local law enforcement of purposefully omitting evidence and district court of wrongly allowing evidence from a separate case to be used to prove character, mental illness and elements of the crimes charged. He also says he received ineffective legal counsel and the sentence was both unconstitutionally long and not representative of the facts.
Gormly was convicted in late 2017 on charges of aggravated indecent liberties and lewd and lascivious conduct against a then-13-year-old girl in late 2016. Gormly has been fighting the convictions and sentence since then and saw the Kansas Court of Appeals change the lifetime post-release supervision part of his sentence changed to lifetime parole. Gormly has also appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court, which declined to hear his case.
