HUTCHINSON– Reno County District Attorney Keith Schroeder has filed a petition against Judge Trish Rose with the Kansas Supreme Court to have a Kansas teen convicted of murder moved from a juvenile facility to an adult jail

On Thursday, the high court was asked to force Judge Trish Rose to move 17-year-old Samuel Vonachen, convicted of killing his mother and sister by setting fire to the family home from the Reno County Juvenile Facility to the Reno County Correctional Facility because he was convicted as an adult.

District Attorney Keith Schroeder also argues that he wants the high court to order Judge Rose to go ahead with sentencing and skip another mental evaluation as part of the presentence investigation.

Schroeder says that there is no need and that Vanochen has already been diagnosed as a psychopath.

Sentencing for Vanochen was originally scheduled for September 30.

On September 7, the judge ordered another mental evaluation for Vanochen prior to sentencing.

In August, a jury convicted Vanochen of first-degree murder for setting the September 2013 fire at the family’s home in Hutchinson that killed his mother and sister.