A Great Bend man who has been incarcerated by the Kansas Department of Corrections in the past is headed back to prison.

On Friday, October 30, Barton County District Court Judge Carey Hipp revoked Richard Musil’s probation in two cases and ordered him to serve his underlying sentences of five years and nine months in the Kansas Department of Corrections.

On May 20, 2019, Musil was booked into the Barton County Jail on a charge of aggravated domestic battery, reportedly committed on May 19, and he was released that same day after posting a $20,000 surety bond. He later entered guilty pleas to aggravated battery of his ex-wife and violating a protective order. There was a separate case from 2019 and in that case he entered a guilty plea to possession of methamphetamine. In exchange for these pleas, additional charges from the two cases and from two other cases were dismissed. Based on his criminal history, the standard sentence would have included time in prison but the court applied a special rule that allowed Musil to be granted probation.

Barton County Attorney Levi Morris reports Richard Musil was originally sentenced on October 8, 2019. After waiving his rights to a preliminary hearing, a jury trial, and to appeal, Musil entered guilty pleas and was granted probation.

At the hearing last Friday, County Attorney Morris argued to the Court that Musil had violated his probation, that he had committed a new offense while on probation, and asked the Court to revoke his probation and send him to prison. After hearing the arguments of Musil’s Attorney, Don Anderson II, the Court found that Musil had violated his probation in several instances, that he had committed a new offense while on probation, and the Court revoked his probation and ordered him to serve his underlying sentences with the Kansas Department of Corrections.