Ted Hunt, Chief Trial Assistant
Ted Hunt has been an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney with the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office in Kansas City, Missouri since 1991. He attended Millsaps College in Jackson Mississippi, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1988. Mr. Hunt attended law school at the University Of Missouri Kansas City School Of Law, earning his Juris Doctor degree in 1992. From 1997 to 2003 he was lead trial attorney in charge of Sex Crimes & Child Abuse Prosecutions in Kansas City, specializing in cases involving DNA evidence. Mr. Hunt is currently Chief Trial Assistant in his office, supervising all prosecutions involving cold cases, child homicides, sex crimes, child abuse, and domestic violence in Kansas City.
Mr. Hunt is active in DNA-related legislative issues in the Missouri General Assembly; having written, successfully lobbied for, and testified in favor of the recent passage of a new law which eliminated the statute of limitations in the State of Missouri for the offenses of forcible rape, forcible sodomy, and their attempt. He was also the primary author of Missouri’s new all-felon DNA database statute. In addition, Mr. Hunt helped to draft Missouri’s Post-Conviction DNA Statute, Missouri’s Sex Offender Registration Law, and a new law that eliminates appellate bonds for most sex offenses in the State of Missouri. During a recent legislative session, Hunt drafted a bill signed into law that increases the percentage of prison time to be served before parole eligibility for child rapists.
Mr. Hunt is a former board member of the Missouri Task Force on Children’s Justice; former Chairman of the Kansas City Interdisciplinary Response to Sexual Assault Task Force; a member of the Missouri Prosecutor’s Review Committee for the Certification of Sexually Violent Predators, a Board member of COVERSA, and a former board member for the Kansas City Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault. He is the project director for the Jackson County Stop Violence Against Women program at the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office. Mr. Hunt is a member of the Bar in the states of Missouri and Kansas.