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Crime & Courts February 6, 2025 - 1:40 pm

Attorney General Kris Kobach seeks to profoundly limit filing of ineffective counsel motions

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

AG Kris Kobach is the driving force behind a Kansas Senate bill placing stringent limits on the ability of people convicted of a crime to file multiple petitions claiming ineffective legal representation.

Crime & Courts December 18, 2024 - 7:09 pm

Woman exonerated in Eudora infant’s death alleges coroner, prosecutors hid and fabricated evidence

by Mackenzie Clark

A Lawrence woman who was convicted and later exonerated in the death of a 9-month-old Eudora boy has filed a new federal lawsuit that includes allegations that prosecutors and the coroner hid crucial information while fabricating other evidence.

Crime & Courts September 17, 2024 - 2:35 pm

Kansas City man asks appeals court to overturn conviction connected to disgraced detective

by Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector

A Kansas Court of Appeals panel heard arguments Tuesday at KU about whether a disgraced KCK police detective’s involvement in a 1997 murder case should result in an overturned conviction.

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Crime & Courts August 13, 2024 - 2:57 pm

Kansas Supreme Court decision could affect Albert Wilson wrongful conviction case

by Mackenzie Clark

A Douglas County judge has asked attorneys representing Albert Wilson in a wrongful conviction case against the State of Kansas to address a recent Kansas Supreme Court decision that could affect Wilson’s case.

Crime & Courts July 2, 2024 - 2:06 pm

‘The truth finally came out’: Attorneys allege Douglas County DA’s office lied about investigation

by Mackenzie Clark

Attorneys have alleged in a wrongful conviction case that the Douglas County district attorney and her legal counsel falsely asserted that a murder investigation was ongoing in order to delay proceedings and withhold documents.

Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
Crime & Courts January 30, 2024 - 11:00 pm

Albert Wilson’s wrongful conviction case is in the judge’s hands

by Mackenzie Clark

A Douglas County judge must decide whether to believe Albert Wilson, who says he was wrongly convicted and should be compensated, or the woman who says Wilson raped her when she was 17.

Crime & Courts October 20, 2023 - 3:46 pm

Kansas Supreme Court: Wrongful conviction law applies to inmates at state prisons, county jails

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

The Kansas Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion Friday that a man could seek wrongful-conviction compensation despite a district court ruling he wasn’t eligible because his incarceration was in a county jail rather than a state prison.

Crime & Courts August 16, 2023 - 4:09 pm

Governor, legislators agree to settle lawsuit for $11.25 million with Kansan exonerated of murder

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

House and Senate lawmakers and Gov. Laura Kelly agreed Wednesday to settle for $11.25 million a lawsuit brought by exoneree Floyd Bledsoe that accused Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Jefferson County officials of misconduct in a notorious murder case.

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Crime & Courts July 3, 2023 - 3:31 pm

Albert Wilson will be given a bench trial to prove his innocence in wrongful conviction case, judge rules

by Mackenzie Clark

A judge says he needs to hear the evidence to determine whether Albert Wilson was wrongly convicted of rape, so the case will go to a bench trial rather than be decided based on attorneys’ arguments.

Crime & Courts January 26, 2023 - 7:52 pm

Fundraiser seeks to help Lawrence woman wrongly convicted in infant’s death

by Mackenzie Clark

A Lawrence woman who was wrongly convicted of killing a boy who had died from natural causes is hoping for community support to start putting her life back together.

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