Christopher Joseph currently defending a man charged with the drive-by shooting of a man standing outside his Hi-Crest home told a judge Wednesday he wants to examine Topeka police reports in an ongoing murder investigation to perhaps clear his client. The prosecutor and legal adviser for the police department disagreed, saying handing over the documents […]
Original Source Kansas City Star – A Kansas judge who publicly rebuked prosecutors for ignoring legal requirements for spying on suspects offered a behind the scenes look into the surge of covert warrants, allowed under a law (The USA Patriot Act) passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that was intended to fight terrorism and […]
Original Source CJ Online Blair was arrested April 10 on a charge alleging he knew about the planned attack using a weapon of mass destruction at Fort Riley. Blair defended by Christopher Joseph of Joseph Hollander & Craft faces a federal charge of misprision of a felony. Authorities allege he knew about the planned attack […]
Original Source CJ Online A sex crime charge against a former Shawnee County corrections officer was dismissed Wednesday by the district attorney. Aaron Kalka, 41, of Auburn, in March 2014 was charged with one count of aggravated criminal sodomy of a victim younger than 14 by an offender older than 18. Conviction of the offense […]
Original Source CJ Online This case has been updated Video and audio recorded statements made to law enforcement officers by a former corrections officer charged with the sexual assault of a 5-year-old won’t be allowed in court, a Shawnee County judge ruled Monday. District Court Judge Cheryl Kingfisher also ruled that all polygraph-related evidence collected […]
Client hired the DUI Defense Team after trying to navigate through the Kansas Department of Revenue’s Driver Control bureaucracy. After a stop on suspicion of DUI, a law enforcement officer arrested Client for DUI and demanded that she submit to a breath test. Client attempted twice to give a breath sample for testing, but, due […]