Kansas ethics panel informally admonishes Johnson County assistant district attorney Jill Kenney for lying to judge
A Kansas ethics panel has issued an “informal admonition” against a Johnson County assistant district attorney for making a false statement to a judge last year.
Kansas’ Office of the Disciplinary Administrator sent assistant district attorney Jill Kenney a letter notifying her of the ethics lapse on October 4, nearly a year after Kenney told a mediation judge that she’d personally spoken to a nurse who’d drawn blood from a defendant, which wasn’t true.
The Johnson County District Attorney’s Office didn’t want to talk about Kenney’s punishment. “No comment,” spokeswoman Kristi Bergeron repeatedly told The Pitch. Bergeron said Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe wasn’t in the office, and he wouldn’t be answering questions about Kenney. So we’re left to wonder if lying to a judge about evidence is acceptable behavior for one of his prosecutors or if Kenney has been punished.
