Prosecutor misstep earns Smith new drug trial
In Topeka Anthony C. Smith testified he lied to police about stealing cocaine, yet the state Court of Appeals ruled the prosecutor's closing claim that he was a liar warranted a new trial on cocaine possession and illegal drug stamping charges. The panel faulted the closing for overstepping and not limiting to inconsistent statements.
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Topeka
Anthony C. Smith
Smith
State Court of Appeals
Lyon County District Court
Man sentenced for posing as admiral in Wichita case
Richard Tracy Spencer, 60, formerly of Wichita, was sentenced to 16 months in prison for forging documents and impersonating a Navy admiral. He claimed service from 1957 to 1963 and wore a high military decoration set he bought ill gotten, including a Congress Medal of Honor, to press his case in a Wichita divorce. He pled guilty to forging a federal seal and wearing unauthorized decorations and will also serve a year of probation.
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Wichita
Richard Tracy Spencer
Spencer
Navy
U.S
J. Thomas Marten
Loewenberg
Olney
Wichita Defense
David Rapp
Woman Receives Probation in Teenager's Stabbing Death
Lindsay Harper, 20, pleaded guilty to abandoning a corpse without notifying authorities and received five years of probation in Kansas City Missouri. She will cooperate against three co-defendants James W Boyd III 20 Brett L Johnson 19 and Adam G Lile 17 who face murder and armed criminal action charges in the September 1999 stabbing of James A Weber.
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Kansas City, Mo
Lindsay Harper
Harper
James A
Man jailed for rape charge hangs self in jail
Richard M. Smyres, 26, jailed on $250,000 bond for kidnapping, rape, and sodomy of a Hutchinson woman, was found hanged in his Reno County jail cell after not seen for breakfast. Police say he confessed inside the Reno County Law Enforcement Center after driving the victim to a parking lot.
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Hutchinson
Reno
Richard M. Smyres
Smyres
Larry Leslie
Reno County Law Enforcement Center
Graves Announces Kansas IT Awards at Statehouse
Governor Bill Graves announced Kansas earned multiple information technology awards at a national conference in Baltimore. Kansas placed second in IT achievements among states, with the Board of Regents and the Department of Revenue winning first in other categories, and Don Heiman credited staff for the success.
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Kansas
Bill Graves
Graves
Statehouse
State Board of Regents
Department of Revenue
Baltimore
National Association of State Information Resource Executives
Don Heiman
Heiman
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