Two child neurology specialists said over and over Friday in Douglas County District Court that the coroner’s conclusion about how a baby boy died at a Eudora home day care was medically impossible. Therefore, the caregiver recently found guilty of murdering the infant has been wrongly convicted and should get a new trial, her lawyer argued. “The jury in this case was deceived by false testimony by an ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 203 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature. It's important to remember that each incident only ...
A road rage suspect who escaped after leading police on a chase overnight later turned himself in and was arrested. The incident started just after 4:30 a.m. Thursday, when Lawrence police were dispatched to a report of road rage, Sgt. Amy Rhoads said in an email. An officer tried to stop the suspect's vehicle, but initiated a pursuit when the driver fled, Rhoads said. Rhoads said the suspect crashed near ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 163 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature. It's important to remember that each incident ...
Carrody M. Buchhorn, who was convicted in July of murdering a baby, says she should be freed from jail immediately and get a new trial, because the coroner fed the jury “junk science” and her trial lawyers should have objected to him testifying at all. But prosecutors have now responded, calling her arguments “an attempt to mislabel and misconstrue” the coroner’s actual testimony. They say strong ...
A Lawrence man has been charged with a sex crime against a teen. Jimmy E. Scott, 42, is charged with one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, a felony, according to the criminal complaint filed in Douglas County District Court. The charges allege that Scott engaged in lewd fondling or touching of a 15-year-old in March of this year. Prosecutors filed the case Nov. 28, and Scott was arrested ...