A Douglas County judge has entirely sealed the arrest affidavit of a repeat felon who took a plea deal last month and was convicted in a liquor store assault. The plea deal itself was sealed on Oct. 15, and two weeks later Judge Stacey Donovan also agreed, at the request of the parties, to ...
A man who fatally stabbed a 66-year-old Lawrence resident and seriously injured his dog outside a grocery store was convicted Friday of voluntary manslaughter and cruelty to animals. Robert Earl Davis, 58, was originally charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 18, 2021, death of Daniel ...
An attempted capital murder trial has been indefinitely delayed after a defense attorney made false representations to the court, leading to a sharp rebuke from the judge and a request from the defendant to get a new lawyer. The incident occurred Friday afternoon in the courtroom of Douglas ...
Kaylen Ortiz believes that her baby boy was murdered nine years ago and that a day care employee was the killer. An expert witness' report that says Ortiz's 9-month-old died by natural causes has not changed Ortiz's mind. And she told a judge Thursday that it didn't change the mind of the ...
As Mateo Clavel Wills' sentencing neared in a sex crime case that involved two preschool-age girls, one of the girls told her mom she'd like to be there in court that day. She was afraid, but she also wanted talk to the judge about Wills. The young girl's request, which her mom passed on to ...
"Because I am innocent!" Carrody Buchhorn told a crowded Douglas County courtroom Wednesday when her attorney asked why she was there. "I want my certificate of innocence," she said, before emotionally describing how the police "had made everyone think" she had violently killed a 9-month-old ...