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Carl Folsom III answers questions by the Kansas House judiciary committee on June 2, 2020 at the Kansas Statehouse. (Evert Nelson/The Capital-Journal via AP)
TOPEKA (AP) Gov. Laura Kelly’s nominee for a spot on Kansas’ second-highest court said Thursday his experience as a public defender would bring real value to an appellate court that is now filled with former civil litigators, former prosecutors and former district judges.
Carl Folsom III, an assistant federal public defender in Topeka, said that although he has handled civil cases at the trial level and on appeal in state and federal courts, his expertise is in criminal law and the constitutional and statutory issues that dominate the docket of the Court of Appeals.
Topeka Capital-Journal
The Kansas Senate rejected the appointment of Carl Folsom III and approved Amy Cline to the Kansas Court of Appeals on Thursday.
The governor appoints judges for the Court of Appeals, but her selections must be confirmed by the Senate. Gov. Laura Kelly chose Cline and Folsom last summer to fill the vacancies left by Judges G. Joseph Pierron Jr. and Steve Leben, respectively.
Folsom, a public defender, doesn t have a good history with state lawmakers, partially because of his job, which requires representing alleged criminals in court. He has already been rejected once for another Court of Appeals vacancy.
GOP senators reject Kansas appeals court nominee 2nd time
By ROXANA HEGEMAN and JOHN HANNAJanuary 22, 2021 GMT
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Republicans in the Kansas Senate on Thursday rejected Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s nomination of a public defender to the state’s second-highest court for the second time in eight months, despite support for him from the state’s top federal prosecutor and other attorneys.
The vote on Carl Folsom III’s nomination was 18-17, but he needed 21 votes in the 40-member Senate to join the Kansas Court of Appeals. It was a stinging defeat for Kelly, who said in nominating Folsom a second time after the Senate rejected him in June that she expected senators to reverse themselves and “do the right thing.”
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