The trial for a defendant accused of attempted capital murder more than three years ago in Baldwin City is now scheduled to begin on Aug. 3.
The defendant, Junah Augustus Sisney, 23, is alleged to have fired a gun at multiple people on Dec. 30, 2022, outside the Bullpen Bar in Baldwin City, before driving around the block, firing at more people near the Baldwin City Library, then returning to the bar and firing ...
Updated at 4:50 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9
Douglas County District Judge Sally Pokorny will step down this spring after 17 years on the bench.
Pokorny, who was appointed by Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, was sworn in on Jan. 15, 2009, to replace retiring Judge Jack Murphy. Her retirement date has been set for April 10.
Colleague Mark Simpson, chief judge of the 7th Judicial District, called Pokorny an ...
The attorney for a man who was acquitted at trial Thursday in Douglas County District Court on Friday blasted news coverage of his case and said he would request a change of venue for the man's next trial, which was scheduled to begin on Feb. 18.
Razmi Tahirkheli, the attorney for 28-year-old Elijah Garcia, told Judge Stacey Donovan that "negative" and "wrong" things had been printed about Garcia in "that ...
A man who had originally been charged with distributing a drug that caused a 39-year-old Lawrence man's death pleaded no contest on Friday to the lesser crime of simple distribution of fentanyl.
Harlan Epps had been charged in the overdose death of Justin Jones, who died in his home on June 5, 2023. On Friday, Senior Assistant District Attorney Eve Kemple and Epps' defense attorney, Angela Keck, presented a ...
Updated at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5
A man accused of beating and pistol-whipping people in a car and again on his front lawn was found not guilty Thursday of all six felony charges, including aggravated battery, in Douglas County District Court.
The jury of five men and seven women returned the verdicts after deliberating for just over three hours in the case of Elijah J. Garcia, of Lawrence, whose trial ...
No basis exists for a gunman to claim immunity from prosecution in the Jan. 17 shootings at The Hawk, a Douglas County prosecutor has written, citing video and witness accounts in the case.
The 18-year-old shooter, Daitron Daniels Strickland, has claimed that he was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot another 18-year-old outside the Lawrence bar on Ohio Street and critically wounded a 16-year-old. ...
