Brooke Dinkel, a former counselor at Smoky Valley Middle School in Lindsborg, Kansas, was sentenced in December to nearly 14 years, followed by lifetime supervision, for two counts of rape. Dinkel claimed the boy raped her.
A legal notice published June 10th shows Dinkel has applied for executive clemency. The Department of Corrections describes that as “a means to remedy a miscarriage of justice” and “an extraordinary method of relief.”
The Prisoner Review Board will review the application and make a recommendation before the petition is submitted to the governor.
Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley says Brownback hasn’t granted any clemency requests since he took office.