HUTCHINSON — A  Kansas Department of Corrections inmate serving time for second-degree murder for a case in Seward County in 2005 now faces a charge of battery of a corrections officer in Reno County.

Eddie Nunez, 28, is accused of battering and causing injury to a female officer at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility

The crime is a level five person felony with a maximum sentence of over 11 years in prison.

With the formal charge filed, his case will move to a future waiver-status docket.