After double-murder defendant Rodney Marshall declined to testify on Wednesday, the defense rested its case on the eighth day of his trial, and jurors will soon begin deliberations.
"I am hesitantly not going to take the stand in my own defense," Marshall, under oath, told Judge Amy Hanley outside of the jury's presence. Marshall seemed initially uncertain that the decision was his alone to make until Hanley ...
During Rodney Marshall's police-station confession to fatally shooting two Lawrence men, he took a break to call his mother in California.
"It's been a weird week, Mom," he says, in a 2022 video seen by jurors Tuesday at his double-murder trial. "I got into some legal trouble out here in Kansas."
He tells his mom he loves her and doesn't want her to have a heart attack.
After a stretch of silence on the video ...
A trio of Douglas County judges and others associated with the county's three specialty courts gathered Tuesday to celebrate National Treatment Court Month with a tree planting on the lawn in front of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center.
Tim Shoulderblade, a 2024 graduate of the Drug Court program, told a noontime crowd how the specialty court had made a huge difference in his life, turning him from a path ...
Hours after two Lawrence men were fatally shot, Rodney Marshall, surrounded by dozens of cops on Kansas Highway 10, confessed to the murders and claimed he had a very "good reason" for the killings.
"What a load off," he appears to say on video as he is taken into state custody, where he would remain for the next four years and likely, if convicted, for the rest of his life.
As his trial entered its second ...
Joshua Mayo thought that telling on fellow inmates for possessing contraband in the jail might be a substantial and compelling reason to get a lighter sentence for himself — probation instead of prison — but a Douglas County judge on Monday disagreed and ordered Mayo to 15 months in prison.
As the Journal-World reported, Mayo was listed as a witness in the cases of two inmates who've been charged with ...
A Lawrence teen who took and shared a nude photo of a special-needs student in a high school bathroom received the maximum possible sentence for his crime — six months of probation — after the victim and his family told a Douglas County judge how the incident had profoundly affected their lives.
"I felt scared and embarrassed, and I don't know what to do anymore," the victim, Shawn Danger Collier, told the ...
