A Douglas County judge has ruled against a man who was suing the State of Kansas for wrongful conviction and imprisonment in a 2016 rape case.
Judge Carl Folsom III in an order filed Monday found that Albert Wilson, who was convicted of raping a 17-year-old, did not meet his burden of showing actual innocence as required by state law.
Wilson, of Wichita, was convicted of rape in 2019 and sentenced to more than ...
A convicted child molester will be allowed to have supervised visits with three family members ahead of his sentencing on Oct. 30, when it's expected that he will receive a lengthy prison term.
Such visits had, up until Tuesday, been forbidden by a court order that said Mateo Clavel Wills could not have contact with any minor children or witnesses in his case, which began more than three years ago, when he was ...
A woman who was arrested last year for beating another woman with a baseball bat at a Lawrence homeless camp was found guilty Monday of aggravated battery.
Jolene Jeanette Harrell, 37, was originally charged with two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. In a plea deal with the state she pleaded no contest to one count. In exchange, the state dropped a misdemeanor count of violation of a protection ...
Whether speech pathologist Mark Gridley did something criminal when he pulled seven young girls out of class and allegedly tied their hands and blindfolded them as he subjected them to a speech "test" remains to be seen, but there's no doubt in the minds of two Lawrence school district employees that the actions, if true, were "unethical" and a gross violation of numerous district rules and professional ...
A judge on Thursday watched several hours of video of four girls telling how they were bound and blindfolded by a speech pathologist who made them kneel and take something variously described as "squishy" and "long" into their mouths as part of a "test."
The four separate videos, recorded in February at the Children's Advocacy Center by a forensic interviewer, were offered by the state on the first day of the ...
A Lawrence man accused of murdering two men and attempting to kill multiple law enforcement officers will now stand trial in May 2026 — nearly four years after the date of the alleged crimes.
Judge Amy Hanley, saying that she was "acutely aware" of how long Rodney Marshall's case had been pending, nevertheless noted that such delays weren't uncommon in a justice system that cautiously moves at the pace of a ...
