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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Douglas County prosecutor on Tuesday vehemently objected to the bond being lowered for a 75-year-old man accused of molesting a young boy, telling the court that the man had confessed to sex crimes that are punishable by life in prison. Defendant Steven Braswell, of Lawrence, was in Judge Stacey Donovan's courtroom pleading to be released on an own-recognizance bond, meaning he would not have to pay any money ...
Updated at 6:04 p.m. Monday, May 18 Douglas County jurors on Monday found a 55-year-old Lawrence man guilty of nine felonies, including two counts of first-degree murder, related to a crime spree in the summer of 2022. The defendant, Rodney Marshall, was also found guilty of four counts of attempted intentional second-degree murder, rather than the three counts of attempted capital murder and one count of ...