By Rod Zook
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A Hutchinson man sentenced to at least 48 years in prison on a first degree murder conviction will be back in a Reno County courtroom Friday. Charles Christopher Logsdon was successful in getting his case remanded back to court citing ineffective counsel. The case was remanded by the Supreme Court in July of 2020.
Logsdon’s defense attorney Sam Kepfield has filed a motion to have the entire district attorney’s office removed from the case. The motion was originally written to have former DA Keith Schroeder, current District Attorney Tom Stanton and former prosecuting attorney Steven Maxwell recused from the case. The motion was modified to include the entire office. The motion will be heard in front of Judge Trish Rose.
Logsdon was convicted of intentional first-degree in the shooting death of Jennifer Heckel in 2011 in her home. The shooting was a case of mistaken identity.
Logsdon has filed several other motions but the one addressed at the moment is the ineffective counsel. Logsdon claims that the defense failed to call 15 witnesses that could prove his innocence. The list includes cell mates, people he claims were with him the night of the murder, and a neighbor of Heckle who says she saw a white male in the victims back yard a week before the murder.
Schroeder, who is now a district court judge, has already filed a brief on the claims made by Logsdon.
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