A sex-crime victim sobbed in apparent disappointment Thursday as the sentencing for her abuser was delayed another six weeks after the man’s attorney neglected to comply with a court rule. Carl Cornwell, the defense attorney for sex offender Michael Ken Aller, was poised to argue for a departure to probation from the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines but had not filed a copy of the joint motion with Judge Amy ...
A Douglas County judge on Thursday said she was completely "flummoxed" by yet another continuance being sought — less than two weeks from trial — in a low-level felony case that originated in 2023. "We are three years into this case, and I am absolutely confused about the manner in which this case is being pursued," Judge Amy Hanley told the two attorneys arguing the case of Phillip Michael Eravi, who is ...
The rulings that were expected to be handed down next week in The Hawk shooting cases have now been delayed more than a month after the court granted a continuance. The attorney for the defendant facing a murder charge in the case sought the continuance because he will be needed for a trial that day in Crawford-Girard County and because reviewing security video evidence in the Lawrence case will require many ...
A man accused of aggravated kidnapping and robbery was ordered to stand trial Tuesday after he waived his preliminary hearing, but his attorney told the court that a plea deal with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office was imminent. Details of the deal for defendant Garnel Moore Williams were not provided, but the court set a plea hearing for March 3. Moore Williams, 31, is facing the two felony ...
A 55-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months in prison for violently threatening a downtown Lawrence restaurant worker. Judge Amy Hanley pronounced the sentence after hearing a brief statement from the victim delivered by prosecutor Eve Kemple. The incident was "very scary and frightening for him," Kemple said, and he expressed the desire for Mahan to make life changes so that he wouldn't continue in ...
When the Iranian government shut down the Internet last month, dozens of Iranian students at the University of Kansas lost their means of connecting with family and friends. They attended classes and lived their "Lawrence lives," worried sick about loved ones who might be affected by the regime's brutal crackdown on civil-rights protesters. "It's a very heavy time when your mind, your heart, is in another part ...