Updated at 5:35 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5 Douglas County jurors on Wednesday found a 33-year-old Lawrence man guilty of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy — in a case where they had to determine whether the woman’s silent conduct amounted to consent and whether she had been overcome by fear. A jury took about four hours to determine that Miquel Brown was guilty of the two felonies stemming from an Oct. 27, ...
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office is asking a jury to convict a man of rape and criminal sodomy in a case where the alleged victim says she never said no, never told the man to stop, never was threatened, never called out to a person in the next room, never said anything at all and never tried to leave. The 19-year-old woman testified on Tuesday that she simply lay still in the dark — in a kind of ...
A man who fatally stabbed a 66-year-old Lawrence resident and seriously injured his dog outside a grocery store was convicted Friday of voluntary manslaughter and cruelty to animals. Robert Earl Davis, 58, was originally charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 18, 2021, death of Daniel Evan Brooks outside the Dillons grocery store at 1015 W. 23rd St., where police said they found him holding a knife. But ...
A Douglas County judge has entirely sealed the arrest affidavit of a repeat felon who took a plea deal last month and was convicted in a liquor store assault. The plea deal itself was sealed on Oct. 15, and two weeks later Judge Stacey Donovan also agreed, at the request of the parties, to keep the arrest affidavit of William Pope from being seen by the public. Donovan had the option to redact sensitive parts ...
An attempted capital murder trial has been indefinitely delayed after a defense attorney made false representations to the court, leading to a sharp rebuke from the judge and a request from the defendant to get a new lawyer. The incident occurred Friday afternoon in the courtroom of Douglas County District Judge Stacey Donovan just three days before the trial of Junah Sisney was set to begin. Sisney, 23, is ...
Kaylen Ortiz believes that her baby boy was murdered nine years ago and that a day care employee was the killer. An expert witness' report that says Ortiz's 9-month-old died by natural causes has not changed Ortiz's mind. And she told a judge Thursday that it didn't change the mind of the person who hired the expert either: former Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez. Ortiz testified Thursday at the ...