Postponed multiple times earlier this year, a Sedalia man whose conviction was set aside by the court more than a year ago has a Plea/Trial setting hearing scheduled to be held this week.

According to court documents, Jerome Lee Williams II, who is now 23 years old, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty in July 2017 to two counts of a sex-related felony involving a juvenile and assault of law-enforcement officers in Saline County and was sentenced to spend a total of more than three decades in state prison on September 11, 2017. However, Williams’ conviction was set aside on April 19, 2020.

The charges arose on January 6, 2017, when the Marshall Police Department was advised of an emergency Child Abuse/Neglect hotline call in reference to an adult allegedly having inappropriate sexual contact with a 6-year-old.

Williams’ Plea/Trial Setting hearing is scheduled to be held at 10 a.m. Monday, July 26, at Saline County Circuit Court.