TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 21-year-old Kansas legislator has agreed to bear psychological well being counseling and a home violence evaluation to keep away from being prosecuted on a misdemeanor home battery cost over a combat along with his youthful brother.
Freshman Democratic Rep. Aaron Coleman, of Kansas Metropolis, additionally agreed in Johnson County to undergo drug or alcohol testing if officers ask him to take action. Coleman signed the diversion settlement with the district lawyer’s workplace final week, and it was filed in district court docket Monday.
Coleman has been embroiled in controversy since working for the Kansas Home in 2020 and acknowledging previous abuses in opposition to ladies and younger girls that led a legislative committee to reprimand him in writing. In addition to the Johnson County cost, he additionally confronted two visitors expenses in neighboring Douglas County, although on-line court docket information stated that case was resolved final month.
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He should run for reelection this 12 months to maintain his seat and already faces an opponent within the Aug. 2 major in his closely Democratic district.
The home battery cost stems from an Oct. 30 incident. Coleman was accused in court docket paperwork of pushing, hitting and spitting on his 18-year-old brother in a combat over the brother’s baptism.
The settlement lasts a 12 months and requires Coleman to bear psychological well being counseling all through that interval. He additionally should bear a home violence evaluation inside a month and, if directed to bear anger administration counseling, full that inside six months. He should pay $294.50 in charges and court docket prices.
Coleman’s lawyer didn’t return a phone message Thursday in search of remark, and Coleman didn’t instantly reply to a textual content message.
In Douglas County, Coleman was charged with rushing on Interstate 70 and failing to yield to an emergency car after he was arrested Nov. 27 in Lawrence. Courtroom information present he pleaded no contest Feb. 18 to the failure to yield cost and the rushing cost was dismissed. The information didn’t element his penalty.
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