A felony domestic violence case that was set to go to trial on Monday was derailed at the very last minute Friday, when one of the defendant's appointed attorneys was allowed to withdraw from the case. The case will now begin anew with a different court-appointed attorney. Attorney Michael Clarke had been representing Shaleah Kauffman in a criminal matter in which she's accused of felony domestic battery and ...
A Douglas County inmate who was seeking to visit his infant daughter at a Kansas City, Missouri, hospital, was given court permission to do so on Friday, but by then the child had died. The inmate, Jaystyn Curtiss, 20, of Lawrence, was still going to be allowed to see his child on Friday afternoon for one hour, accompanied by Douglas County deputies and hospital security. Curtiss' appointed attorney, Michael ...
A 31-year-old man facing a lengthy prison term choked back tears Thursday as he apologized to a long list of people, expressed regret for endangering them and promised to change his ways. "I can do better and will do better," Garnel Moore Williams told Douglas County Judge Amy Hanley, who commended his "articulate and insightful" comments before sentencing him to nearly 11 years in prison, pursuant to a March 3 ...
A Lawrence grocery store employee who was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of stealing thousands of dollars from his employer has now been charged with felony theft. Ethan Cade Waters, 21, is accused in a criminal complaint filed Wednesday of stealing $25,000 from the Dillons store at 3000 W. Sixth St. As the Journal-World reported, Waters was taken into custody after the store asset manager informed ...
Senior Judge Nancy Parrish couldn't "ever remember doing it before," but on Thursday she did it: She gave probation to a defendant who has seven prior person felonies and the worst possible criminal history score. Parrish, who called the hearing "a particularly difficult sentencing," said she found substantial and compelling reasons to depart from the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines in the case of Steven Carl ...
Updated at 4:40 p.m. Thursday, May 21 One Lawrence resident's name — out of three considered — will be submitted to Gov. Laura Kelly as a finalist for the open seat on the Kansas Supreme Court. Douglas County District Judge Carl Folsom III made it into the final round of voting Thursday by the Supreme Court Nominating Commission. He will be joined by two other finalists: District Judge Krishnan Christopher ...