TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man convicted of murder in a 2000 death in Atchison County will get a new trial.

A Kansas Court of Appeals panel said in an opinion issued Friday that it upheld a county court’s decision to order a new trial for Kirk Wilson in the March 2000 shotgun death of 38-year-old Kurt Boldridge.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Wilson is serving a Hard 25 sentence after being convicted in 2001. The Atchison County court ordered a new trial last year, saying Wilson’s attorney was ineffective. The state appealed that ruling.

Boldridge was shot in the head as he slept at his rural Atchison home in March 2000. Wilson was one of four people, including the victim’s ex-wife, who were convicted in the homicide.