The Douglas County District Attorney's Office is asking a judge to keep secret the reasons of police for arresting a man in an armed robbery and assault case — a request that comes on the heels of the DA also asking for the plea agreement itself to be kept under wraps.
The reasons for the requested secrecy are unknown because such requests are themselves filed under seal.
As the Journal-World reported, the ...
A man who was accused of repeatedly stabbing a homeless woman in the head with a knife last spring was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 10 years in prison.
Marquise Zontae Bowens, 20, was originally charged with attempted second-degree murder in the May 15 incident after Lawrence police responded to Clinton Park near the intersection of West Sixth and Maine streets and found an injured 35-year-old woman. A ...
A 42-year-old Topeka man was convicted Wednesday of two counts of sexual exploitation of a child after he pleaded no contest to the charges in Douglas County District Court.
In exchange for Jason Morrison's plea, which came just days before his scheduled trial, the state agreed to drop two counts of the more serious felony of aggravated human trafficking.
Morrison is believed to have no prior criminal history ...
A Douglas County judge on Tuesday sentenced a Gardner man to two years of probation in connection with a high-speed wrong-way police pursuit on Kansas Highway 10 in 2021.
The man, Christopher Dale, 37, emotionally hugged his defense attorney, Jessica Glendening, after Judge Amy Hanley ruled in his favor and against the District Attorney's Office, which had sought the prison sentence that was presumed under ...
A 43-year-old Lawrence man is likely facing more than 16 years in prison after being convicted Monday of child abuse and aggravated indecent solicitation of a child.
The man, Joshua William Spence, pleaded no contest in Douglas County District Court to child abuse by impeding the breathing of a young boy, who is listed in court documents as having been born in 2018, and to three counts of aggravated indecent ...
A Baldwin City man will soon stand trial for attempted capital murder after plea negotiations with the state proved unsuccessful.
Junah Sisney, 23, is alleged to have fired a gun at multiple people on Dec. 30, 2022, outside of the Bullpen Bar, 811 Eighth St. in Baldwin City, before driving around the block, firing at more people near the Baldwin City Library, 800 Seventh St., then returning to the bar and ...
