A man accused of stabbing a 35-year-old Lawrence woman to death in August appeared in court Wednesday to schedule a hearing for his multiple criminal cases, including second-degree murder.
Aaron Blake Wright, 63, is facing charges of criminal threat, battery on a law enforcement officer and disorderly conduct from a March case, as well as burglary and theft charges from an August case.
In addition to those ...
A man who critically injured another man after drunkenly shooting him in a car full of people received a one-year prison sentence Tuesday, which was suspended to two years of probation, and will have to pay the victim more than $6,000 in restitution.
The defendant, Coby Allen Gore Holland, 22, pleaded no contest to aggravated battery for the Feb. 19 incident in which he pulled a Glock-style handgun and ...
A convicted rapist who was supposed to be sentenced later this week is asking for a new trial, claiming that the judge and the man's trial attorney erred in instructing the jury.
The defendant, Reston Phillips, was convicted of rape in May after unsuccessfully putting on a "sexsomnia" defense, claiming that he was asleep during the sex act and hence not responsible.
Phillips was scheduled to be sentenced for ...
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 ...
