A Lawrence police sergeant testified for hours on Monday about her order to arrest a so-called "First Amendment auditor" who is charged with felony interference with law enforcement in connection with an armed standoff between police and a shooting suspect more than three years ago.
A Douglas County jury over the course of a weeklong trial will weigh the credibility of the sergeant, Meagan Shipley, and ...
After the computer system in the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office underwent an apparently serious cyberattack, the office is declining to release any details about the matter, including whether the attack exposed people’s personal information or how much taxpayer money is being spent on addressing the problem.
The county's public information officer, in denying a records request, has told the Journal-World ...
Updated at 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20
About an hour after a jury began deliberating a Douglas County aggravated assault case, the parties were called back into the courtroom over what appeared to be a grave matter.
Judge Stacey Donovan did not publicly disclose what the issue was, but it appeared to be about the jury and could therefore have potentially led to a mistrial, based on statements overheard in the ...
Updated at 5:35 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20
A Douglas County jury on Thursday acquitted a defendant who claimed that he had pulled a handgun at a gas station last year in self-defense because he feared that another store patron was going to kill him.
The jury of six men and six women listened to evidence over two days and returned two not-guilty verdicts within about two and a half hours.
The defendant, Jason ...
A witness told a Douglas County jury that his simple failure to return a stranger's nod at a gas station led to the stranger angrily pulling a gun on him, but a defense attorney told jurors that the armed man was clearly acting in self-defense and that it was the unarmed man who should be on trial.
Jurors will soon decide which version of events they believe in the case of 50-year-old defendant Jason Keesee, ...
The multimillion-dollar, 158,000-square-foot addition to Douglas County's Judicial and Law Enforcement Center is coming to life as court offices have steadily migrated from the older part of the building in recent weeks.
People who have courtroom business will notice quite a few changes as they step into the bigger, brighter rooms in what's now known as the "tower" south of, but still connected to, the older ...
