photo by: Douglas County Sheriff's Office

Christopher C. Maier

Over Christopher C. Maier’s repeated objections that he was not the defendant, Christopher C. Maier, and thus couldn’t be sentenced for crimes charged to Christopher C. Maier, a judge did sentence Maier on Wednesday.

“I object. Mr. Maier is not here,” Maier said when the judge asked whether there was legal reason she shouldn’t proceed with sentencing.

Maier, 30, of Lawrence, is one of the Douglas County Jail’s longest-serving inmates, partly due to being among Douglas County District Court’s most difficult defendants.

Judge Sally Pokorny sentenced Maier to 41 months in prison, or more than three years, but noted he would be credited for the 781 days he’s already spent in custody. He will be subject to a year of supervision after he’s released and also must register as a violent offender, Pokorny said.

On July 30, a jury took 20 minutes to convict Maier of aggravated assault and aggravated battery, for putting a loaded gun to a woman’s head and threatening to kill her, then pistol-whipping her face in June of 2016.

Maier had chosen to represent himself at his trial. Then he walked out, and while he was taken back to jail, the judge formally waived his right to be present at his own jury trial and proceedings went on without him.

At his sentencing Wednesday, Maier walked in with a thick folder of papers and a stack of envelopes.

Multiple times he got up and tried to leave and was restrained by deputies. Multiple times he insisted that he was being held against his will, a violation of “maritime constitutional law.” Multiple times he said he was invoking his right to “immunity” as he was under “common law jurisdiction” — not the court’s.

He never told the judge what he believed his name was — since it wasn’t Christopher C. Maier, he said — but in hundreds of pages of handwritten letters and pro se legal filings, he’s often signed his name “Christiano: of the Ariel Dynasty.” At one hearing last year, he refused to appear from the jail, according to a court journal entry, “unless and until the Court and the paperwork acknowledged him as Lucious Inferno Valentine.”

Maier embellishes many of his filings with a drawing he calls the “ion seal.”

Prosecutor Eve Kemple said Maier had undergone mental competency evaluations, including at Larned State Hospital, during his lengthy time in custody and had been found competent to proceed in court.

She said the victim of Maier’s attack with the gun didn’t want to come in person to his sentencing.

“She doesn’t ever want to see Mr. Maier again,” Kemple said. “Her words were, ‘He needs to be in prison as long as possible.'”

Maier replied, “It’s a victimless crime.”

He punctuated his objections by lifting his feet and gesturing to his ankle shackles.

“Judge, I am demanding that these chains be taken off,” Maier said. “I am not the defendant.”