GUILTY KS - Nicole Fisher, Luke Davis & Matthew Leavitt, Slain, Topeka, 12 March 2017

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The judge then directly asked Flowers in court whether he wanted to withdraw his motion contesting his guilty pleas. Flowers paused for awhile before answering.

"Yes, your honor," Flowers said.

Flowers' defense attorney James Spies asked for about 45 days to develop mitigating evidence in the sentencing of Flowers. Spies had replaced two defense attorneys who withdrew as Flowers' counsel for reasons that weren't made public.

The Flowers sentencing on Oct. 31 is expected to take two hours.
At last second, Flowers backs off from withdrawing his murder pleas

 

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Kansas man forced to take part in triple killing enters... | Daily Mail Online

Shane Andrew Mays Pleaded Guilty To Second-Degree Attempted Murder And Aggravated Battery In March 2017 Triple Homicide

Mays Took Part In The Killing Of His Good Friend, Matthew Leavitt, 19, To Save His Own Life

Also Killed During Rampage Were Nicole Fisher, 38, And Luke Davis, 20; All Three Victims Were Strangled Or Smothered

Attack Was Prompted By Unproven Rape Allegation Made By Kora Liles

Mays Is Sentenced On May 21, And Could Face More Than Eight Years In Prison

Four Other Suspects Previously Entered Pleas, Including Joseph Krahn, Who Was Sentenced To Three Life Terms For Carrying Out The Murders

 

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Judge orders Mays to serve full sentence in murder case

 

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On Oct. 21, Brian Joseph Flowers, the defendant, filed a “motion for voluntary dismissal of the appeal.”

On Monday, a Supreme Court document filed Monday showed that Flowers sought dismissal of his appeal.

-- Shane Andrew Mays, attempted second-degree murder and aggravated battery which carry sentences totaling 104 months.

-- Joseph Aaron Krahn, three consecutive 50-year sentences in the killings of the three victims.

-- Joseph P. Lowry, 125 years for three counts of first-degree murder, a consecutive term of 12 years and 11 months for an aggravated kidnapping conviction, and two concurrent terms of 12 years and 11 months in two other aggravated kidnapping counts.

-- Kora L. Liles, three consecutive 25-year prison terms for three first-degree murders and 693 consecutive months for eight other convictions.
Murder defendant withdraws motion to overturn convictions

 

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Kansas Supreme Court affirms man’s 2017 triple murder convictions

The Kansas Supreme Court affirmed one man’s first-degree felony murder convictions in a 2017 triple murder.

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In October 2022, the State Supreme Court said it would hear the case of the State of Kansas v. Joseph P. Lowry. The court officially announced on Friday, February 24, that the court unanimously affirmed Lowry’s convictions for his role in the murders of three people.

According to court documents, the bodies of victims Matthew Leavitt, 19; Luke Patrick Davis, 20; and Nicole Star Fisher, 38, were found in the basement of 115 NW Grant on March 12, 2017. They were found strangled or suffocated -- and the men had also been beaten.