Senior Judge Nancy Parrish couldn't "ever remember doing it before," but on Thursday she did it: She gave probation to a defendant who has seven prior person felonies and the worst possible criminal history score.
Parrish, who called the hearing "a particularly difficult sentencing," said she found substantial and compelling reasons to depart from the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines in the case of Steven Carl ...
Updated at 4:40 p.m. Thursday, May 21
One Lawrence resident's name — out of three considered — will be submitted to Gov. Laura Kelly as a finalist for the open seat on the Kansas Supreme Court.
Douglas County District Judge Carl Folsom III made it into the final round of voting Thursday by the Supreme Court Nominating Commission. He will be joined by two other finalists: District Judge Krishnan Christopher ...
A Douglas County judge on Thursday declined to modify the bond of a man facing charges of aggravated residential burglary and robbery.
The defendant, Julius Beasley, 42, is being held in the Douglas County Jail on a cash or surety bond of $75,000. He was jailed following his arrest in March, less than three weeks after the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office dropped a murder charge against ...
A 39-year-old homeless man has been charged with two felonies after allegedly cutting another man with a knife Tuesday in downtown Lawrence.
The man, Dau Cuiebet Jok, was taken into custody shortly before 9 p.m. in the 700 block of Vermont Street, where police had been dispatched to a disturbance with weapons. Responding officers quickly detained a potential suspect and worked to get a statement from a man with ...
Three of the seven people seeking to fill a vacant seat on the Kansas Supreme Court are from Lawrence, and you can watch their live job interviews on Thursday.
The Lawrence candidates will have interviews in Topeka as follows: Douglas County District Court Judge Carl Folsom III at 10 a.m.; Douglas County District Court Judge Amy Hanley at 11:15 a.m.; and Lawrence attorney Meryl Carver-Allmond at 1:30 p.m.
The ...
A Lawrence man charged with shooting two individuals last week is asking for a court order that would allow him to see his infant daughter, who is reportedly dying.
Jaystyn James Curtiss, who turns 20 on Thursday, appeared in Douglas County District Court via video from the jail Wednesday with his attorney, Michael Clarke, who told Senior Judge Nancy Parrish that he would be requesting a transport order so that ...
