A three-time sex offender will serve nearly six years in prison after a Douglas County judge on Wednesday rejected a public defender's request that his client be put on probation.
The attorney, Angelo Panas-Cabrera, argued - with the help of three psychology experts - that sex offender Quortez Longfellow Coleman would be better served living in and getting treatment in the Lawrence community rather than going ...
A Lawrence YouTuber was sentenced on Tuesday to six months in prison, suspended to 12 months of probation, after a jury convicted him in August of felony interference with law enforcement.
Judge Amy Hanley handed down the sentence to Phillip Michael Eravi, 56, after she denied his attorney's request for a continuance as well as Eravi's motion for a judgment of acquittal/new trial. That motion - seeking to toss ...
After operating for one year, Douglas County's newest collaborative approach to criminal justice has helped seven military veterans get back on their feet after run-ins with the law - run-ins that, under other circumstances, could easily have sent them into a downward spiral with little hope of recovery.
"We are restoring important people in our community and giving them a second chance," Judge Amy Hanley told ...
After a four-day trial, a Douglas County jury on Friday acquitted a woman of five of the six charges she faced in a domestic abuse case.
Jurors convicted defendant Shaleah Kauffman only on one count of violation of a protective order, a misdemeanor. On the other five counts — aggravated domestic battery and domestic battery, both felonies, and endangering a child, theft and criminal damage, all misdemeanors ...
A Douglas County judge on Thursday ordered a 38-year-old Lawrence man to stand trial for rape after a woman testified that the man, a close friend, had assaulted her at his apartment last year.
The 30-year-old woman, who sobbed and shook as she testified, said the assault occurred in June 2025, when she slept over on Brian Allan Greenleaf's living room couch after a birthday party and a night of heavy ...
A 24-year-old man has been ordered to stand trial in the drug overdose of a young Lawrence mother.
The woman's husband testified Thursday that he returned from his night shift on March 8 and found his wife, Marisa Greene, unresponsive with their 1-year-old daughter crawling around her body.
"I came home to my wife on the ground dead," Brandon Greene told Judge Amy Hanley. He said he administered two to three ...
