A speech pathologist who was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on multiple counts of abusing children last year at Prairie Park Elementary School in Lawrence instead received a continuance to mid-April due to the "magnitude" of the case.
Mark Gridley appeared briefly late Friday morning in front of Judge Amy Hanley in Douglas County District Court. Hanley said the continuance, unopposed by the state, was not ...
The defense attorney for a man charged with murder in a crash that killed a local actor is asking the court to keep his client's arrest affidavit under wraps, saying that it includes alleged admissions by his client as well as toxicology results and how fast he may have been driving.
Michael Clarke, who represents Eliseo Munoz, says in a motion to the court that the public does not need to see such "granular" ...
A sex-crime victim sobbed in apparent disappointment Thursday as the sentencing for her abuser was delayed another six weeks after the man’s attorney neglected to comply with a court rule.
Carl Cornwell, the defense attorney for sex offender Michael Ken Aller, was poised to argue for a departure to probation from the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines but had not filed a copy of the joint motion with Judge Amy ...
A Douglas County judge on Thursday said she was completely "flummoxed" by yet another continuance being sought — less than two weeks from trial — in a low-level felony case that originated in 2023.
"We are three years into this case, and I am absolutely confused about the manner in which this case is being pursued," Judge Amy Hanley told the two attorneys arguing the case of Phillip Michael Eravi, who is ...
The rulings that were expected to be handed down next week in The Hawk shooting cases have now been delayed more than a month after the court granted a continuance.
The attorney for the defendant facing a murder charge in the case sought the continuance because he will be needed for a trial that day in Crawford-Girard County and because reviewing security video evidence in the Lawrence case will require many ...
A man accused of aggravated kidnapping and robbery was ordered to stand trial Tuesday after he waived his preliminary hearing, but his attorney told the court that a plea deal with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office was imminent.
Details of the deal for defendant Garnel Moore Williams were not provided, but the court set a plea hearing for March 3.
Moore Williams, 31, is facing the two felony ...
