photo by: Kim Callahan/Journal-World

Emergency crews respond to East Eighth Street Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, after a report of a woman being beaten with a baseball bat.

A woman who was arrested last year for beating another woman with a baseball bat at a Lawrence homeless camp was found guilty Monday of aggravated battery.

Jolene Jeanette Harrell, 37, was originally charged with two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. In a plea deal with the state she pleaded no contest to one count. In exchange, the state dropped a misdemeanor count of violation of a protection from abuse order in an unrelated case from July of last year.

She is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 4. If her criminal history score is what the parties expect it to be, she will face a sentence of 19 to 23 months, with probation presumed under the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines.

As the Journal-World reported, Harrell was arrested on Oct. 24, 2024, in East Lawrence. Police were called shortly after 7 p.m. to the 800 block of Delaware Street, where three unhoused women had apparently set up a camp in the nearby woods. An argument ensued, and Harrell reportedly struck one of the women several times with a baseball bat, lacerating her head.

Harrell is not to be confused with another woman by the same name who admitted, in 2005, scamming 90-year-old retired judge Charles Rankin out of more than $100,000, as the Journal-World reported.