Updated at 11:50 a.m. Wednesday, April 10
A man who is suing the Lawrence City Commission and two former mayors suffered another defeat this week when a federal judge refused to order the commission to temporarily stop enforcing its speech policy at commission meetings.
The man, Justin Spiehs, is a frequent commenter at meetings, and on at least two occasions — in October 2022 and July 2023 — he was ...
A man was convicted of misdemeanor endangerment Friday in Douglas County District Court after he had originally faced a far more serious charge of felony aggravated assault with a knife.
Deonte Darrell Jackson, 35, was on probation on Aug. 24, 2023, when he approached a man in a delivery truck with a knife in downtown Lawrence. The crime he was on probation for at the time was a violent, and seemingly random, ...
Updated at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Lawrence’s “most infamous” commenter has failed to demonstrate that the City Commission’s rules about comments at public meetings are unconstitutionally vague or that the city engaged in unlawful viewpoint and content discrimination against him.
Federal Judge Julie Robinson in an order this week, using Justin Spiehs’ self-identification as “the most ...
Gayla Kelly thinks her son came to Lawrence in his final days because it was a place where he had been happy.
“He said once that Lawrence was where he began his adult life” — he excitedly came to KU in 2012 to study music education — “so I believe that a part of him felt this was the right place to end his life,” she said.
But she can’t be sure — even as she “relives and rethinks every action ...
A Lawrence man who was accused of violently raping a KU student in 2018, but who pleaded the charge down to aggravated battery after the jury hung in the rape trial, was sentenced to probation Friday in Douglas County District Court.
At the sentencing of Kalim Dowdell, 27, Judge Stacey Donovan heard from the victim and the victim’s mother about how the actions of Dowdell — including not only the alleged ...
Just days after a defendant was deemed competent to stand trial in one courtroom he was ejected from another courtroom for a profanity-laced outburst against the court and his own attorney.
The defendant, John Timothy Price, was in the courtroom of Judge Stacey Donovan with his attorney, Razmi Tahirkheli, for a pretrial conference Friday on one of his battery on a law enforcement officer cases when he became ...
