November 12, 2010
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Though one of four defendants charged in connection with an October robbery on Redbud Lane protested in court Friday, the state has sufficient evidence for all four to face trial, a Douglas County District Court judge ruled.
Judge Robert Fairchild lowered the bond for some of the four defendants — all Topeka residents — accused in connection with the late night shooting of a 28-year-old Lawrence resident and a 25-year-old man being hit with the butt of a pistol.
Christopher A. Bush, 19, is accused of pulling the trigger, and the other three — Ashley A. Halstead, 22, Desmond J. Jackson, 19, and Rylie R. Musik, 18 — are accused of creating a plan to rob the two victims.
All four defendants are charged with aggravated battery, two counts of attempted aggravated robbery and two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery.
On Friday, Musik’s attorney argued that she was not part of the plan, and had told others in the group that she didn’t want to be a part of it.
After testimony from the two victims and a Lawrence police detective, Fairchild ruled that sufficient probable cause existed to move forward in the case.
The two victims said that they were lost, and found their way to the Iowa Street Walmart parking lot. One of the two victims — both spoke through an interpreter — testified that one had a slip of paper with one of their addresses on it, and had asked around for a ride to that address.
After the two men met the four defendants, the defendants hatched a plan to rob the men, using the two women as a distraction while the men came in from behind and robbed the victims, Lawrence police detective Mike McAtee testified.
All four defendants have trial dates scheduled in the coming months.
Judge Robert Fairchild lowered the bond for some of the four defendants — all Topeka residents — accused in connection with the late night shooting of a 28-year-old Lawrence resident and a 25-year-old man being hit with the butt of a pistol.
Christopher A. Bush, 19, is accused of pulling the trigger, and the other three — Ashley A. Halstead, 22, Desmond J. Jackson, 19, and Rylie R. Musik, 18 — are accused of creating a plan to rob the two victims.
All four defendants are charged with aggravated battery, two counts of attempted aggravated robbery and two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery.
On Friday, Musik’s attorney argued that she was not part of the plan, and had told others in the group that she didn’t want to be a part of it.
After testimony from the two victims and a Lawrence police detective, Fairchild ruled that sufficient probable cause existed to move forward in the case.
The two victims said that they were lost, and found their way to the Iowa Street Walmart parking lot. One of the two victims — both spoke through an interpreter — testified that one had a slip of paper with one of their addresses on it, and had asked around for a ride to that address.
After the two men met the four defendants, the defendants hatched a plan to rob the men, using the two women as a distraction while the men came in from behind and robbed the victims, Lawrence police detective Mike McAtee testified.
All four defendants have trial dates scheduled in the coming months.