by admin | Apr 12, 2005 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has ruled in the case of a convicted sex offender who has been in the custody of the State Mental Health Department since June of 2000. Wilbur Schottel’s public defender, Emmett Queener, says his client had initially stipulated he was a...
by admin | Mar 7, 2005 | Crime / Courts
The Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Diocese has refused to go the way the St. Louis Archdiocese has gone in sex-abuse lawsuits against priests. The Kansas City Star says the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese is fighting all 16 suits facing it. The St. Loius Archdiocese...
by admin | Feb 8, 2005 | Crime / Courts
It’s taken seven years and three trials for former Lee’s Summit businessman Theodore White to be found not guilty of sexually abusing his ten year old stepdaughter. The jury was out for only about two hours. Last year, a jury deadlocked 11-1 for acquittal....
by admin | Aug 26, 2004 | Crime / Courts
Possession of child pornography becomes a felony on Saturday. At present, child porn possession is only a misdemeanor. Representative Mark Bruns of Jefferson City sponsors the bill that makes possession a felony and he says a child porn case in Jefferson City this...
by admin | Aug 18, 2004 | Crime / Courts
DNA evidence has led to charges in a Kansas City rape and murder case that happened 20 years ago. The prosecutor says DNA from semen at the crime scene has led to murder and armed criminal action charges agianst Blake McMilian, who was 24 then. He’s charged with...
