A man accused of chasing a couple with a hatchet last year near a homeless camp in North Lawrence pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Douglas County District Court, and a trial date was set for late fall. Brandon Eugene Snow, 33, was originally charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with an incident on June 15, 2023, on the levee trail behind Johnny's Tavern. At a ...
The case against a former Lawrence school district janitor was abruptly dismissed Tuesday in Douglas County District Court after his attorney informed the judge that the pornography he was alleged to have possessed was of an adult woman, not of a child. The revelation came about after the defendant, Thomas Allen Gallagher, 62, had spent about three months in the county jail on the felony charge of sexually ...
A Lawrence man is facing a minimum of 4.5 years in prison and 25 years as a registered sex offender after he was found guilty Thursday in Douglas County District Court of electronic solicitation of a child. The defendant, John Grant Redding, 38, pleaded no contest to the felony solicitation charge after his attorney, Michael Clarke, and Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez negotiated a plea deal that ...
A Douglas County jury on Tuesday found a man not guilty of gun theft, the second acquittal in less than a week for the Douglas County District Attorney's Office. Kavaun Clark, after a two-day trial, was quickly acquitted after jurors found that the DA's Office, represented by Assistant District Attorney Madeline Bjorklun, had failed to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Clark was charged with felony ...
A Tecumseh man originally charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon pleaded no contest to misdemeanor endangerment Tuesday in Douglas County District Court. Ethan Stephens, 25, pleaded no contest to the amended complaint after his court-appointed defense attorney, Dakota Loomis, negotiated a plea deal with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, represented by Assistant District Attorney Adam ...
Updated at 6:50 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22 A Douglas County jury on Thursday found a man not guilty of aggravated assault in connection with two alleged road rage incidents last year in Lawrence. Jeremy James Shacklett, 47, was charged with three counts of aggravated assault stemming from two incidents on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2, 2023. In both incidents, as the Journal-World reported, Shacklett was accused of becoming ...