A year after a University of Kansas researcher was charged with felony theft and other charges, the state has moved to dismiss the case. However, the motion that Assistant Attorney General Paul Brothers filed Tuesday indicates that the case could be refiled. “Recent developments in the case necessitate further investigation,” the motion states. “The State is seeking a dismissal of the case to allow ...
A judge bound a Lawrence man over for trial in a rape case Wednesday in Douglas County District Court, following testimony from a witness and the woman he is accused of raping. Andrew E. Ferguson, 22, was charged last December with rape of a victim who was unconscious or physically powerless. Ferguson faced an alternative charge of rape of a victim who was incapable of consenting because of the effects of drugs ...
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit in federal court that accused two Lawrence police officers of using excessive force in the plaintiff’s arrest. Donavan R. Hiller, 35, has remained in the custody of the Douglas County Jail on a $50,000 cash or surety bond since he was arrested Aug. 30, 2019, jail records indicate. A woman had told police that Hiller sexually assaulted her and hit her in the head with a ...
A judge has declined to stop Douglas County from enforcing a health order against Paradise Saloon, an adult entertainment club in Lawrence, while a civil case is pending. Since the case was filed in Douglas County District Court in early October, attorney Robert “Tuck” Duncan has raised several arguments against local health restrictions put in place to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. Though the ...
In an ongoing legal dispute over a Douglas County health order that limits bars’ operating hours amid the coronavirus pandemic, an attorney now says a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down attendance limits at religious services should apply to an adult entertainment club in Lawrence. Attorneys for the county, however, say that argument fails to note that free religious exercise protections of the First ...
Brynlee Alice Jean Bledsoe is still too young to know the significance, but someday she'll understand that her middle names are in honor of two of the women who helped free her father from prison in 2015. Brynlee, who will turn 2 next month, and her two big brothers are making the time pass by much more quickly for Floyd Scott Bledsoe than it did as he spent almost 16 years behind bars. This Tuesday, Dec. 8, ...