Updated at 5:35 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5 Douglas County jurors on Wednesday found a 33-year-old Lawrence man guilty of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy — in a case where they had to determine whether the woman’s silent conduct amounted to consent and whether she had been overcome by ...
The Douglas County District Attorney's Office is asking a jury to convict a man of rape and criminal sodomy in a case where the alleged victim says she never said no, never told the man to stop, never was threatened, never called out to a person in the next room, never said anything at all and ...
A Douglas County judge has entirely sealed the arrest affidavit of a repeat felon who took a plea deal last month and was convicted in a liquor store assault. The plea deal itself was sealed on Oct. 15, and two weeks later Judge Stacey Donovan also agreed, at the request of the parties, to ...
A man who fatally stabbed a 66-year-old Lawrence resident and seriously injured his dog outside a grocery store was convicted Friday of voluntary manslaughter and cruelty to animals. Robert Earl Davis, 58, was originally charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 18, 2021, death of Daniel ...
An attempted capital murder trial has been indefinitely delayed after a defense attorney made false representations to the court, leading to a sharp rebuke from the judge and a request from the defendant to get a new lawyer. The incident occurred Friday afternoon in the courtroom of Douglas ...
Kaylen Ortiz believes that her baby boy was murdered nine years ago and that a day care employee was the killer. An expert witness' report that says Ortiz's 9-month-old died by natural causes has not changed Ortiz's mind. And she told a judge Thursday that it didn't change the mind of the ...