MISTRIAL KS - Mike Sisco, 47, & Karen Harkness, 53, murdered, Topeka, 7 July 2002 *2nd retrial*

[Coldpizza]

Judge gives Chandler maximum penalty in cold case killings

After a short break, Parrish handed down the maximum penalty of two Hard 50s.

http://cjonline.com/news/2012-08-20/judge-gives-chandler-maximum-penalty-cold-case-killings

 

[Steely Dan]

Judge gives Chandler maximum penalty in cold case killings

After a short break, Parrish handed down the maximum penalty of two Hard 50s.

http://cjonline.com/news/2012-08-20/judge-gives-chandler-maximum-penalty-cold-case-killings

:woohoo:

 

[nervous_nellie]

bet her poor kids will finally feel safe from her... i hope she lives to a ripe old age living every last day in prison and that her kids never come to see her.

 

[Coldpizza]

:woohoo:

:woohoo::woohoo: back at ya

Thanks for keeping this case up to date!!


Are ya READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!!!!


sorry for the ot all

 

[Steely Dan]

:woohoo::woohoo: back at ya

Thanks for keeping this case up to date!!


Are ya READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!!!!


sorry for the ot all

Yeah, I'm a little worried about Miami since they have Chad Ochocinco now.

 

[Steely Dan]

:doh: I'm sorry, I forgot. :innocent:

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

This story is being featured on 48 Hours right now.....

 

[luckyseven]

Oklahoma woman appeals Kan. convictions for cold-case slayings
Sunday, April 26th, 2015

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The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Dana Chandler, of Duncan, Oklahoma, alleges that a Shawnee County District Court judge erred in imposing two “Hard 50″ sentences. Chandler, now 55, received the sentences in 2012 for the killings of 47-year-old Mike Sisco and 53-year-old Karen Harkness. The sentences mean Chandler would have to serve 100 years before appearing in front of a parole board.

 

[Jewels53]

Kansas Supreme Court reverses convictions of Dana Chandler in Topeka double-homicide case

The Kansas Supreme Court unanimously found justification Friday to reverse the premeditated first-degree murder convictions of former Topeka resident Dana Chandler resulting from the 2002 shooting deaths of her ex-husband and his fiancee.

Attorneys for Chandler had argued for years misconduct by Shawnee County prosecutors warranted reversal of verdicts in the murder of Michael Sisco and Karen Harkness, both of Topeka.

In the Supreme Court’s opinion, the justices concluded the prosecution of Chandler “unfortunately illustrates how a desire to win can eclipse the state’s responsibility to safeguard the fundamental constitutional right to a fair trial owed to any defendant facing criminal prosecution in a Kansas courtroom.”

http://www.cjonline.com/news/201804...-dana-chandler-in-topeka-double-homicide-case

I understand why they overturned the conviction. I still think she is Guilty! imo jmo and moo

 

[JerseyGirl]

Dana Chandler to face new trial in 2002 Topeka killings

A new jury trial is set to begin on October 1, 2018.

 

[Jewels53]

Dana Chandler to represent herself in retrial


Dana L. Chandler, who was previously convicted of a 2002 double homicide, will represent herself in her retrial, for the time being.

The Kansas Supreme Court overturned Chandler’s murder convictions in April, citing prosecutorial misconduct, and remanded the case back to Shawnee County District Court. In 2012, she was convicted of killing her ex-husband, Michael Sisco, and his fiancee, Karen Harkness, and sentenced to 100 years in prison.

Shawnee County District Judge Nancy Parrish hasn’t recused herself from the second round of proceedings as Chandler, 58, has requested. Keen Umbehr, who with his wife, Eileen, has maintained Chandler’s innocence, will act as an informal legal adviser.

At her first appearance after the case was remanded to district court, Chandler requested that Parrish recuse herself and allow her to represent herself with standby counsel.

Parrish and Chandler met one-on-one for an hour during a motion hearing Thursday to discuss Chandler’s request for a change of judge.

 

[JerseyGirl]

https://www.ksnt.com/news/local-news/dana-chandler-murder-re-trial-delayed/1476877158

Instead of Monday, Oct. 1, her trial is now set to start on Feb. 4, 2019 with the week before that set aside for jury selection.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Instead of Chandler's trial starting on Oct. 1, the trial will start either on Jan. 28 or 29.

Jury selection will require about a week, then the three-week trial then will start on Feb. 4 with a jury of 12 people and six alternate jurors hearing the testimony.

On Wednesday, the judge scheduled motion hearings to be conducted on Oct. 22 and Oct. 30.

Chandler murder trial delayed until February

 

[JerseyGirl]

Cold case murder defendant Dana Lynn Chandler wants a judge to order a state agency to pay a firearms expert to examine evidence on behalf of Chandler, then testify as a defense witness.

The Kansas Board of Indigent Defense Services has already declined to fund the proposed expert, who charges fees ranging from $100 an hour to $200 an hour.

A motion hearing in the Chandler case is next scheduled to be on Oct. 22, and a second motion hearing will be eight days later on Oct. 30.

In other defense motions, Chandler asked the judge to order:

• Prosecutors to hand over a complete copy of the CBS video coverage of the 2012 jury trial of Chandler;
• A copy of the court order directing prosecutors to produce a copy of the prosecution letter directing law enforcement officers to comply with two Kansas Supreme Court rules dealing with trial publicity and the special responsibilities of a prosecutor;
• Prosecutors to hand over a "cheat sheet" that prosecutors and the judge are using to track all motions and court orders;
• Jury selection in Chandler's trial will start either on Jan. 28 or 29.

Jury selection will require about a week, then the three-week trial then will start on Feb. 4 with a jury of 12 people and six alternate jurors hearing the testimony.

Chandler wants firearms expert in murder re-trial

 

[JerseyGirl]

Dana Lynn Chandler wants the judge hearing her murder retrial to block admission of evidence that jurors heard during her first trial more than six years ago when that jury convicted Chandler of two counts of first-degree murder.

The Chandler re-trial is scheduled to start on Feb. 4.

Chandler to judge: Throw out evidence you allowed in first murder trial

 

[waif godiva]

Yep, she's the one.

That's the image that sort of sets this case apart - a stalking ex- on the trampoline in the wee hours.

Really a haunting kind of thing.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Dana Chandler seeks complete '48 Hours' recordings of 2012 trial

 

[JerseyGirl]

The trial for Dana Chandler was to have started in January. It's now set for June 10, 2019.

Chandler was found guilty six years ago of killing her ex-husband Mike Sisco and his fiance Karen Harkness in 2002.

Her conviction was reversed by the Kansas Supreme Court earlier this year.

Chandler trial delayed for second time

 

[JerseyGirl]

Judge Nancy Parrish refuses Dana Chandler's request to recuse herself from trial

 

[Sylvia Ross]

I feel so sorry for those poor kids. Dana Chandler was first convicted & sentenced to 50-hard consecutive years. Then her conviction was overturned in December of 2018 by the Kansas Supreme Court. It seems the victims' families are never going to get justice. Dana Chandler actually had the audacity to grill her son & daughter on the witness stand when she was acting as her own attorney. Reminds me of when Ted Bundy acted as his own attorney & was grilling some of his survivors. Both of these people are psychopaths; they don't feel empathy for anybody but themselves. And there's a special place in Hell for Dana Chandler for treating her children like she has.