Postponed a couple of times earlier this year, a Plea/Trial setting hearing is scheduled to be held this week for a Sedalia man whose conviction was set aside nearly a year ago.

According to court documents, Jerome Lee Williams II changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on July 10, 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, the conviction for Williams, who is now 23 years old, 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 for 11 a.m. on Monday, August 23, at Saline County Circuit Court.