A man was ordered to stand trial on charges of rape and aggravated sexual battery in Douglas County District Court after a woman testified Friday that he sexually attacked her on two occasions in 2024.
The defendant, Marlon D. Watson, is now scheduled for trial in June.
The 27-year-old woman testified that Watson, whom she met at their shared place of employment, raped her on her living room couch in August ...
Updated at 6:38 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22
A Douglas County judge on Thursday sentenced a man to 12 years and three months in prison for rape after a jury last year rejected his claim that the sexual violation had innocently occurred while he was asleep.
The victim in the case, a 30-year-old woman who now lives out of state, asked the court for "the most severe sentence under the law," or nearly 14 years, which ...
One of the defendants in Saturday's deadly shooting at the Jayhawk Cafe has requested an immunity hearing in the case.
Razmi Tahirkheli, the attorney for Daitron Lamont Daniels Strickland, 18, of Shawnee, requested the hearing Wednesday in Douglas County District Court. In an immunity hearing, Judge Amy Hanley would determine whether Strickland is immune from prosecution. Tahirkheli is expected to have his ...
A 21-year-old Texas man is being held on a $500,000 bond in the Douglas County Jail after being charged with two sex crimes involving children.
The man, Dominik Jamal Smith, of Irving, Texas, made his first court appearance Wednesday before Judge Amy Hanley, who appointed defense attorney Michael Clarke to represent him and kept his bond set at half a million dollars. Smith will appear in court again on Jan. 28 ...
A 44-year-old Lawrence man was sentenced to just over 17 years in prison Wednesday for child abuse; aggravated indecent solicitation of a child; and violation of his probation in an earlier crime against a child.
Joshua William Spence was originally charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a child but pleaded no contest in October 2025 in Douglas County District Court to child abuse by impeding the ...
The trial for a 21-year-old man accused of rape and kidnapping was indefinitely delayed on Tuesday, and the man's bond was modified to house arrest with work release.
The defendant, Tristan Aden James, is accused of raping a fellow student in November 2024 while he was a sophomore at Haskell Indian Nations University. He is alleged to have abducted the woman and raped her in his car, then to have led police on ...
