A Reno County man sentenced to nine years in prison on a criminal contempt of court charge didn’t get any relief from a Kansas Court of Appeals panel Friday.
The three-member panel upheld the conviction and sentence of Jose Delacruz, convicted in 2011 for refusing on three occasions a judge’s order to testify in the first-degree murder trial of co-defendant Anthony Waller. Delacruz’s nine-year sentence was ordered to be served after completion of a nearly seven-year sentence for aggravated burglary.