A man who escaped from federal prison in Kansas in 1977 while serving a 23-year sentence for a premeditated murder and aggravated assault committed while he was a U.S. Army…
A criminal defense lawyer can testify in his former client’s appeal asserting ineffective assistance of counsel, even if the ex-client hasn’t waived attorney-client privilege, a Kansas judge ruled
William Marotta didn’t intend to be a father when he responded to a Craigslist ad for a sperm donor in 2009, and the two women who sought one didn’t want…
The University of Kansas School of Law has been publicly censured and fined $50,000 for admitting two students into a new LLM degree program without the ABA’s prior approval and…
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has been asked to issue a legal opinion on whether the state’s concealed carry law allows gun owners to bring their weapon to polling places.
Rejecting an attorney discipline administrator’s call for disbarment of a former Kansas attorney general, the state’s supreme court on Friday indefinitely suspended attorney Phill Kline.
Someone hit by a train is lucky to have survived. Kristopher Wenberg did, but he was cited for criminal trespass because walking on the tracks is illegal, according to the…
A research lawyer who was fired over tweets she posted last year about the “naughty boy” former state attorney general during a Kansas Supreme Court hearing in his legal ethics…
Did the two men made infamous by Truman Capote’s true-crime novel, In Cold Blood, kill not only the four members of a Kansas farm family, for which they were executed,…
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