When Nicholas Beaver murdered a man last year in downtown Lawrence, then fled across town on his bike, he was likely unaware of just how many cameras had recorded his actions.
Some of those cameras — like the one that captured three ear-splitting gunshots and Beaver’s victim collapsing on the sidewalk — were owned by private businesses. Another was owned by the Lawrence Public Library, and another — the ...
"This case makes no sense," a defense attorney told the jury Thursday in a case of a man accused of aggravated criminal sodomy against two teens, including his own brother.
On Friday, the jury appeared to agree, at least partially, delivering not-guilty verdicts on the most serious charges against the defendant, Wyatt Farrow, and finding him guilty of only two misdemeanors.
The outcome produced sobs of relief ...
Story updated at 4:59 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4:
The girlfriend of a defendant standing trial for aggravated criminal sodomy told a jury on Thursday that she and her boyfriend thought that the two alleged teen victims might "hit it off" but that a plan for the teen boy to sexually assault the teen girl after getting her drunk never existed.
The girlfriend of Wyatt Farrow took the stand Thursday morning — the ...
A special bench honoring the long history of women judges and attorneys in Douglas County will now sit outside the juvenile courtroom in the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center.
The colorfully inviting bench, titled "Pioneers of the Bench," by Van Go artist Langley Gottesburen, was unveiled Thursday afternoon by Judge Sally Pokorny.
Pokorny said the bench — commissioned by the Douglas County Bar ...
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office is trying a young man this week for aggravated criminal sodomy of two teens, one of them his brother.
The case is unusual in that the defendant, Wyatt Farrow, is never alleged to have inappropriately touched either teen, and one of the teens — the brother, 17 at the time — told a jury Wednesday that his older brother had not victimized him in any way.
"Do you ...
Updated at 12:02 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29
A majority of the Kansas Supreme Court has found that former Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez did not violate a state rule of professional conduct and will not be disciplined.
"A righteous decision was issued today by the Kansas Supreme Court," Valdez told the Journal-World via text after the court issued its 43-page opinion Friday in her favor.
The court ...
