Both candidates vying to be Douglas County’s next district attorney acknowledged, at a forum Sunday, that unquestionable discrimination exists in the criminal justice system against people of color, and they vowed to combat it if elected.
“There is no question that endemically and systemically there exists discrimination in the criminal justice system,” Republican Mike Warner said at the forum hosted by ...
A convicted felon’s hopes of evading prison were disappointed Friday when he was handed a prison sentence as well as a lecture about being an adult.
“You had an assault rifle and you pointed it at a group of children,” Judge Amy Hanley told Maurice De’Anton Thomas Buckner, 34, who was convicted on May 24 after he pleaded no contest to attempted aggravated assault and one count of criminal ...
The family of a 21-year-old man who died of a fentanyl overdose more than three years ago was incensed and saddened Friday when the woman responsible for his death was allowed yet another delay in the case — this time a delay in her sentencing for involuntary manslaughter, ostensibly because she had become pregnant while being free on bond.
"Today is three years, five months and 13 days following Kendall's ...
Incriminating statements made by an alleged sex offender will not be suppressed after a Douglas County judge on Thursday found that the statements were knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently made to police after a Miranda warning.
The defendant in the case, Kendrick Deandre Atkins, 25, of Lawrence, is facing multiple sex crime charges, including aggravated indecent liberties with a child, aggravated human ...
A Lawrence man who was accused of going on a violent rampage with a hammer and a Jeep last spring pleaded no contest on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court to felony criminal threat and now faces more than a year in prison.
Ronald Dwayne Walters, 51, was originally charged with multiple felonies, including aggravated battery, criminal threat and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, after an ...
Updated at 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2
A Douglas County judge has ordered a Lawrence teen to stand trial for first-degree, premeditated murder in the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy earlier this year.
The defendant, Cir Allen Keith Glover, 19, appeared in court Wednesday for the second part of his preliminary hearing on the original charge of second-degree murder in the death of Isaiah Neal. Glover is ...
