What the Judge Ate for Breakfast
"Inside the courts of Wichita, Kan."
Author: Ron Sylvester is an investigative and courts reporter at the Wichita Eagle.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Judiciary • Trials & Litigation • States • Kansas • Legal News Publication
Recent Posts from What the Judge Ate for Breakfast
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AG wants more time to respond to Tiller accusations
UPDATED: A hearing on these motions is set for 3 p.m. Thursday before Judge Clark Owens. The office of Kansas Attorney General Stephen Six is asking for more time to respond to charges that his…
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Teenage prostitute case in Wichita reveals glimpse into bigger problems
Listening to the story of a former teenage prostitute from Wichita this week provides a glimpse into a troubled world of runaways and other youngsters forced to live on their own means. But it’s a…
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Sedgwick County District Court offers child support amnesty
UPDATED: The Office of the Court Trustee provided additional details and about the amnesty payment plans. More than 1,000 parents who could face jail for not paying their child support get a break next month,…
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City of Wichita gets grant for mental health court
Wichita Municipal Court officials tell us that the city has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice for a mental health court. City officials say the court has been trying to get a…
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Wichita case of pregnant woman punched in stomach a common example of abuse
The 19-year-old woman cried this afternoon, as she told a judge how the father of her unborn child choked her and punched her in the stomach last month. Jamie Stuart was seven months pregnant when…
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Court says Sedgwick County deputy went too far in traffic stop
When a Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy asked a passenger for his license, then ran a warrant check on him during a routine traffic stop, it went beyond what the law allowed, the Kansas Court of…
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Robinson wants his denial of killing Brooks suppressed
A judge today denied a request by capital murder defendant Elgin Ray Robinson Jr. to withhold from the jury statements he made to police denying that he was involved in the killing of Chelsea Brooks.…
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Women judge Kansas appeals on anniversary of suffrage
The judges say the date was merely a coincidence. But on the 88th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in America, the first three-woman panel of the Kansas Court of Appeals convened today…
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Couple’s spat leads to their arrest as robbery suspects
A man and a woman fighting with each other drew the attention of Wichita police this week, who arrested them after seeing they fit the description of a couple who attacked and robbed a 79-year-old…
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Watch this, before you talk to the police
Many times, I’ve watched prosecutors play confessions to crimes in courts, where the suspect starts talking after police tell them, “You have the right to remain silent.” Police have told me the act of reading…