A defendant in a double-murder trial clasped his hands, seemingly in prayer, Monday as jurors left his presence and resumed their second day of deliberations in his trial in Douglas County District Court. The defendant, Rodney Marshall, 55, is facing nine felony counts, including two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted capital murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, two counts ...
Updated at 12:09 p.m. Saturday, May 16 A Douglas County judge on Friday issued a temporary order blocking the State of Kansas from enforcing parts of a law that would prevent minors from receiving gender-affirming care, saying that the plaintiffs had shown a reasonable probability that they would suffer irreparable harm if the law stood during the pendency of the lawsuit. Attorney General Kris Kobach on ...
Updated at 5:53 p.m. Friday, May 15 Jurors are now deciding whether the state has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Rodney Marshall murdered two Lawrence men and attempted to murder several law enforcement officers during an alleged crime spree four years ago. The Douglas County jury of seven women and five men got the case shortly before 12:45 p.m. Friday — with nine felony counts to consider — and ...
Closing arguments in Rodney Marshall's double-murder trial that were scheduled to be heard Thursday afternoon are now slated for Friday morning in Douglas County District Court. The schedule change was due to the court and parties needing more time to complete jury instructions. Sixteen jurors heard five days of evidence before the defense rested on Wednesday. Four of those jurors are alternates in the event ...
After double-murder defendant Rodney Marshall declined to testify on Wednesday, the defense rested its case on the eighth day of his trial, and jurors will soon begin deliberations. "I am hesitantly not going to take the stand in my own defense," Marshall, under oath, told Judge Amy Hanley outside of the jury's presence. Marshall seemed initially uncertain that the decision was his alone to make until Hanley ...
During Rodney Marshall's police-station confession to fatally shooting two Lawrence men, he took a break to call his mother in California. "It's been a weird week, Mom," he says, in a 2022 video seen by jurors Tuesday at his double-murder trial. "I got into some legal trouble out here in Kansas." He tells his mom he loves her and doesn't want her to have a heart attack. After a stretch of silence on the video ...