A three-time sex offender will serve nearly six years in prison after a Douglas County judge on Wednesday rejected a public defender's request that his client be put on probation. The attorney, Angelo Panas-Cabrera, argued - with the help of three psychology experts - that sex offender Quortez ...
A Lawrence YouTuber was sentenced on Tuesday to six months in prison, suspended to 12 months of probation, after a jury convicted him in August of felony interference with law enforcement. Judge Amy Hanley handed down the sentence to Phillip Michael Eravi, 56, after she denied his attorney's ...
After operating for one year, Douglas County's newest collaborative approach to criminal justice has helped seven military veterans get back on their feet after run-ins with the law - run-ins that, under other circumstances, could easily have sent them into a downward spiral with little hope of ...
After a four-day trial, a Douglas County jury on Friday acquitted a woman of five of the six charges she faced in a domestic abuse case. Jurors convicted defendant Shaleah Kauffman only on one count of violation of a protective order, a misdemeanor. On the other five counts — aggravated ...
A Douglas County judge on Thursday ordered a 38-year-old Lawrence man to stand trial for rape after a woman testified that the man, a close friend, had assaulted her at his apartment last year. The 30-year-old woman, who sobbed and shook as she testified, said the assault occurred in June ...
A 24-year-old man has been ordered to stand trial in the drug overdose of a young Lawrence mother. The woman's husband testified Thursday that he returned from his night shift on March 8 and found his wife, Marisa Greene, unresponsive with their 1-year-old daughter crawling around her ...