OTTAWA — In a Franklin County District Court hearing this morning, District Judge Thomas Sachse granted a request by prosecutors that allows analysts more leeway in conducting DNA testing of evidence in the murder trial of Kyle Flack. His ruling allows an analyst to consume a whole sample if in the analyst’s opinion, the whole sample would give a more complete DNA profile. Flack has been charged with the murders of Andrew Stout, Steven White, Kaylie Bailey, and Lana Bailey near Richter. Flack will be back in court Oct. 17 for another status hearing. Sachse also granted a request by Victor Braden, deputy Kansas attorney general, who is helping conduct the prosecution because it is a capital-murder case, to move back Flack’s preliminary hearing from February to March 11 and 12. Braden said he might have military obligations in February. A preliminary hearing would determine if there is enough evidence to try Flack for the murders.
Thursday, Aug. 29, noon
