A Wichita man has been sentenced to 23 years, nine months in prison in the shooting death of another man who was left to die on a street in March 2023.
Jurors in October found Julian Cesar Wedge, 25, guilty of second-degree reckless murder and robbery in the killing of 24-year-old Evan Chad Harrison of Wichita. Wedge was also convicted of interference with law enforcement for destroying evidence of the homicide and one count of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
He was sentenced Tuesday by Sedgwick County District Judge Jeffrey Goering following unsuccessful efforts to have his convictions thrown out over juror misconduct. The misconduct included a juror taking notes at home about witness testimony while the trial was ongoing and two jurors looking up definitions on their phone during deliberations, according to court records…