SEDGWICK COUNTY — A Kansas felon accused in a double murder of a man and woman at Wichita motel made his first court appearance in the case Wednesday.&nbsp;<a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=746460">John Aurthur Griffin</a>&nbsp;III, 20, Wichita, was charged with capital murder, criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, aggravated endangering a child, and two counts of aggravated battery, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office.

Just before 9:30a.m. Saturday, police were dispatched to a shooting call&nbsp; in the 7300 block of E. Kellogg, according to Officer Kris Gupilan.

First responders located two shooting victims in a motel room identified as&nbsp;35-year-old Christopher Harrell and 35-year-old Natisha Phillips both of Wichita.

EMS transported Harrell to a local area hospital where he was pronounced deceased. Phillips was pronounced deceased on the scene. 

Officers also located a young child at the scene, who was unharmed, and police are using resources to address any psychological or medical needs for the child.&nbsp;

Subsequent investigation led the arrest of Griffin. He had been in prison for portion of 2022 and 2023 after a conviction for Battery of a Juvenile Corrections Facility officer, Employer person confined, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. During his time his approximately 18 months in prison, Griffin had been disciplined nearly three dozen times for battery, theft, fighting and other crimes, according to the KDOC

His next court appearance is March 13. He is being held on a bond of six-million dollars.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1708953115181.png" alt="Griffin-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Griffin-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>SEDGWICK COUNTY — A Kansas felon accused in a double murder of a man and woman at Wichita motel made his first court appearance in the case Wednesday.&nbsp;<a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=746460">John Aurthur Griffin</a>&nbsp;III, 20, Wichita, was charged with capital murder, criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, aggravated endangering a child, and two counts of aggravated battery, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1708804201051.png" alt="Police on the scene of the investigation -photo courtesy KWCH" />
 <figcaption>Police on the scene of the investigation -photo courtesy KWCH</figcaption>
 </figure>Just before 9:30a.m. Saturday, police were dispatched to a shooting call&nbsp; in the 7300 block of E. Kellogg, according to Officer Kris Gupilan.First responders located two shooting victims in a motel room identified as&nbsp;35-year-old Christopher Harrell and 35-year-old Natisha Phillips both of Wichita.EMS transported Harrell to a local area hospital where he was pronounced deceased. Phillips was pronounced deceased on the scene. Officers also located a young child at the scene, who was unharmed, and police are using resources to address any psychological or medical needs for the child.&nbsp;Subsequent investigation led the arrest of Griffin. He had been in prison for portion of 2022 and 2023 after a conviction for Battery of a Juvenile Corrections Facility officer, Employer person confined, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. During his time his approximately 18 months in prison, Griffin had been disciplined nearly three dozen times for battery, theft, fighting and other crimes, according to the KDOCHis next court appearance is March 13. He is being held on a bond of six-million dollars.

Violent felon charged with capital murder in Kan. motel killings

BUTLER COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas teen for alleged child sex crimes.

&nbsp;A tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children prompted an investigation by El Dorado Police and the Kansas ICAC Task Force in Wichita alleging the sexual exploitation of children through the use of electronic devices.&nbsp; Investigators then arrested 18-year-old Lillian Bagley of El Dorado.

She is being held on requested charges of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, sexual exploitation of a child and aggravated internet trading in child pornography.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1709080587675.png" alt="Bagley photo Butler Co." />
 <figcaption>Bagley photo Butler Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>BUTLER COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas teen for alleged child sex crimes.&nbsp;A tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children prompted an investigation by El Dorado Police and the Kansas ICAC Task Force in Wichita alleging the sexual exploitation of children through the use of electronic devices.&nbsp; Investigators then arrested 18-year-old Lillian Bagley of El Dorado.She is being held on requested charges of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, sexual exploitation of a child and aggravated internet trading in child pornography.

Kansas teen accused of internet trading in child pornography

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-superfan-accused-bank-robberies-kansas-city-f7b764389a54a9e0812ac50eceafa033">Kansas City Chiefs superfan</a>&nbsp;known as “ChiefsAholic” pleaded guilty Wednesday to a string of robberies and attempted robberies of banks and credit unions in multiple states.

Xaviar Michael Babudar, 29, pleaded guilty in federal court in Kansas City, Missouri, to one count each of money laundering, transporting stolen property across state lines, and bank robbery. Sentencing was scheduled for July 10.

“His violent crime spree across the Midwest and beyond traumatized bank employees and victimized financial institutions in seven states,” U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore said in a news release.

Federal prosecutors said Babudar admitted to a string of robberies or attempted robberies in 2022 and 2023. Much of the stolen money was laundered through casinos and online gambling, prosecutors said.

As part of the plea agreement, Babudar must pay at least $532,675 in restitution. He also must forfeit property — including an autographed painting of Chiefs' quarterback Patrick Mahomes that was recovered by the FBI.

Prior to his arrest, Babudar was a well-known figure on social media for his rabid support of the Chiefs. He attended several games dressed as a wolf in Chiefs’ clothing.

Prosecutors said the robberies and attempted robberies occurred in Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Tennessee, Minnesota, Nevada and California.

Babudar has taken responsibility for his crimes, his attorney, Matthew Merryman, said in an emailed statement to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article286028366.html">Kansas City Star</a>.

“Today Xaviar stood humble and repentant before the eyes of the Court and the eyes of the Chiefs Kingdom,” Merryman said. “Xaviar loves the Chiefs Kingdom, he loves his family, and he loves Kansas City. He only hopes that you will all rally to his support.”

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2023/7/1689010403536.png" alt="Babudar from an earlier arrest in Tulsa County" />
 <figcaption>Babudar from an earlier arrest in Tulsa County</figcaption>
 </figure>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-superfan-accused-bank-robberies-kansas-city-f7b764389a54a9e0812ac50eceafa033">Kansas City Chiefs superfan</a>&nbsp;known as “ChiefsAholic” pleaded guilty Wednesday to a string of robberies and attempted robberies of banks and credit unions in multiple states.Xaviar Michael Babudar, 29, pleaded guilty in federal court in Kansas City, Missouri, to one count each of money laundering, transporting stolen property across state lines, and bank robbery. Sentencing was scheduled for July 10.“His violent crime spree across the Midwest and beyond traumatized bank employees and victimized financial institutions in seven states,” U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore said in a news release.Federal prosecutors said Babudar admitted to a string of robberies or attempted robberies in 2022 and 2023. Much of the stolen money was laundered through casinos and online gambling, prosecutors said.As part of the plea agreement, Babudar must pay at least $532,675 in restitution. He also must forfeit property — including an autographed painting of Chiefs' quarterback Patrick Mahomes that was recovered by the FBI.Prior to his arrest, Babudar was a well-known figure on social media for his rabid support of the Chiefs. He attended several games dressed as a wolf in Chiefs’ clothing.Prosecutors said the robberies and attempted robberies occurred in Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Tennessee, Minnesota, Nevada and California.Babudar has taken responsibility for his crimes, his attorney, Matthew Merryman, said in an emailed statement to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article286028366.html">Kansas City Star</a>.“Today Xaviar stood humble and repentant before the eyes of the Court and the eyes of the Chiefs Kingdom,” Merryman said. “Xaviar loves the Chiefs Kingdom, he loves his family, and he loves Kansas City. He only hopes that you will all rally to his support.”

Chiefs superfan 'ChiefsAholic' pleads guilty to bank robberies

Recent Booking Activity for the Geary County Detention Center. All persons included in this post are innocent of crimes until proven guilty in a court of law.

Recent Booking Activity for the Geary County Detention Center. All persons included in this post are innocent of crimes until proven guilty in a court of law.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1709146697683.jpeg" alt="Jeremiah Warren, Criminal possession of a weapon by felon, (Less than eight years since sentence/diversion was completed), Interference with LEO, Obstruct/resist/oppose misdemeanor warrant service or execution, arrested 02/27" />
 <figcaption>Jeremiah Warren, Criminal possession of a weapon by felon, (Less than eight years since sentence/diversion was completed), Interference with LEO, Obstruct/resist/oppose misdemeanor warrant service or execution, arrested 02/27</figcaption>
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1709146797920.jpeg" alt="Ruby Riggins, Criminal trespass, arrested 02/27" />
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1709146827906.jpeg" alt="Nicholas Southwick, Uniform criminal extradition act, Arrest prior to requisition, arrested 02/27" />
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1709146908903.jpeg" alt="Elijah Mcleroy,&nbsp;Uniform criminal extradition act, Arrest prior to requisition, Outside warrant, arrested 02/27" />
 <figcaption>Elijah Mcleroy,&nbsp;Uniform criminal extradition act, Arrest prior to requisition, Outside warrant, arrested 02/27</figcaption>
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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1709147871345.jpeg" alt="Kyle Mulford, DUI-Liquor or drugs, Ignition interlock device; Operate a car without required device, Driving while license cancelled/suspended/revoked, Possession of marijuana, Prohibiting drug paraphernalia, arrested 02/27" />
 <figcaption>Kyle Mulford, DUI-Liquor or drugs, Ignition interlock device; Operate a car without required device, Driving while license cancelled/suspended/revoked, Possession of marijuana, Prohibiting drug paraphernalia, arrested 02/27</figcaption>
 </figure>Recent Booking Activity for the Geary County Detention Center. All persons included in this post are innocent of crimes until proven guilty in a court of law.

Geary County Booking Photos Feb. 28

DOUGLAS COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities investigating a deadly Kansas knife attack have made an arrest.

On Monday, Lawrence Police&nbsp; arrested 40-year-old Julius Robert Beasley of Lawrence for killing Chrystal White.

Just after 4:30a.m. Feb. 22, emergency responders found a 51-year-old woman later identified as White of Lawrence. with apparent stab wounds in a tent just north of the city's sanctioned camp near 100 Maple near the Kansas River in Lawrence, according to a Police Department spokesperson&nbsp;Laura McCabe. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Patrol officers immediately started interviewing witnesses, the investigations unit responded, a suspect was quickly identified, and an area canvass was underway.&nbsp; The Lawrence Police Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle (Drone) and Patrol Service Dog Units were also deployed.

By about 9:00am, police personnel located Beasley in Burcham Park and detained him for questioning and held him on unrelated Douglas County warrants.&nbsp;

Since Beasley was already being held in jail, investigators were able to more thoroughly investigate the incident prior to making an arrest.  Investigators worked closely with the Douglas County District Attorney’s office throughout this investigation, and with the arrest, police now turn the case over to their office. Beasley is being held on requested charges of 1st Degree Murder and Felony Interference.

Beasley has previous convictions for Criminal threat, burglary and for drugs, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1709000842243.png" alt="Beasley&nbsp; has previous convictions for Criminal threat, burglary and for drugs, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections." />
 <figcaption>Beasley&nbsp; has previous convictions for Criminal threat, burglary and for drugs, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.</figcaption>
 </figure>DOUGLAS COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities investigating a deadly Kansas knife attack have made an arrest.On Monday, Lawrence Police&nbsp; arrested 40-year-old Julius Robert Beasley of Lawrence for killing Chrystal White.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1708615630038.png" alt="File photo of the unsanctioned camp -Google image" />
 <figcaption>File photo of the unsanctioned camp -Google image</figcaption>
 </figure>Just after 4:30a.m. Feb. 22, emergency responders found a 51-year-old woman later identified as White of Lawrence. with apparent stab wounds in a tent just north of the city's sanctioned camp near 100 Maple near the Kansas River in Lawrence, according to a Police Department spokesperson&nbsp;Laura McCabe. She was pronounced dead at the scene.Patrol officers immediately started interviewing witnesses, the investigations unit responded, a suspect was quickly identified, and an area canvass was underway.&nbsp; The Lawrence Police Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle (Drone) and Patrol Service Dog Units were also deployed.By about 9:00am, police personnel located Beasley in Burcham Park and detained him for questioning and held him on unrelated Douglas County warrants.&nbsp;Since Beasley was already being held in jail, investigators were able to more thoroughly investigate the incident prior to making an arrest. Investigators worked closely with the Douglas County District Attorney’s office throughout this investigation, and with the arrest, police now turn the case over to their office. Beasley is being held on requested charges of 1st Degree Murder and Felony Interference.Beasley has previous convictions for Criminal threat, burglary and for drugs, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.

Kan. man with history of crime accused of deadly knife attack 

RILEY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on multiple allegations.

Just before 1:30p.m. Tuesday, police arrested 28-year-old Jose Trinidad of Manhattan in the 100 block of Courthouse Plaza in Manhattan, according to the Riley County Police Department activity report.

Trinidad was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant on requested charges of kidnapping, criminal deprivation of property, domestic battery, criminal threat x 2, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated burglary. &nbsp;

Trinidad is in custody on a total bond of $100,000, according to the RCPD.

RILEY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on multiple allegations.Just before 1:30p.m. Tuesday, police arrested 28-year-old Jose Trinidad of Manhattan in the 100 block of Courthouse Plaza in Manhattan, according to the Riley County Police Department activity report.Trinidad was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant on requested charges of kidnapping, criminal deprivation of property, domestic battery, criminal threat x 2, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated burglary. &nbsp;Trinidad is in custody on a total bond of $100,000, according to the RCPD.

Manhattan man accused of violent kidnapping, domestic battery

SEDGWICK COUNTY —A&nbsp; Junction City man accused in the deadly drive-by killing of his girlfriend made his first court appearance Tuesday.

Dennis Alcox, 38, was charged with 1st degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office.

Just before 2a.m. Thursday, police responded to a shooting in the 8100 block of E Harry in Wichita, according to Police Lt. Aaron Moses.

First responders located 26-year old Audreanna Hidalgo of Wichita with a gunshot wound.&nbsp; She was pronounced deceased at the scene.

Officers with the Patrol East Community Response Team and Homicide Investigators immediately began investigating this case to understand what occurred. Throughout that investigation, police have come to believe that this was a case of Intimate Partner Violence.

Investigators were able to quickly identify a suspect. Police arrested&nbsp; Alcox in Junction City.&nbsp;He remains jailed in Sedgwick County on a bond&nbsp; one-point-five million dollars, according to the district attorney's office.

Alcox was on pre-trial supervision on a charge of Aggravated Battery at the time of the murder.&nbsp; There is no documented history between this suspect and victim through the Wichita Police Department, according to Moses.&nbsp;&nbsp;

This was the eighth criminal homicide in Wichita in 2024.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1708700312678.png" alt="Alcox -photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Alcox -photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>SEDGWICK COUNTY —A&nbsp; Junction City man accused in the deadly drive-by killing of his girlfriend made his first court appearance Tuesday.Dennis Alcox, 38, was charged with 1st degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office.Just before 2a.m. Thursday, police responded to a shooting in the 8100 block of E Harry in Wichita, according to Police Lt. Aaron Moses.First responders located 26-year old Audreanna Hidalgo of Wichita with a gunshot wound.&nbsp; She was pronounced deceased at the scene.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1708624650162.png" alt="Police at the scene of the investigation -photo courtesy KWCH" />
 <figcaption>Police at the scene of the investigation -photo courtesy KWCH</figcaption>
 </figure>Officers with the Patrol East Community Response Team and Homicide Investigators immediately began investigating this case to understand what occurred. Throughout that investigation, police have come to believe that this was a case of Intimate Partner Violence.Investigators were able to quickly identify a suspect. Police arrested&nbsp; Alcox in Junction City.&nbsp;He remains jailed in Sedgwick County on a bond&nbsp; one-point-five million dollars, according to the district attorney's office.Alcox was on pre-trial supervision on a charge of Aggravated Battery at the time of the murder.&nbsp; There is no documented history between this suspect and victim through the Wichita Police Department, according to Moses.&nbsp;&nbsp;This was the eighth criminal homicide in Wichita in 2024.

Junction City man accused in murder of girlfriend makes court appearance

CHASE COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on drug allegations after a traffic stop.

On Feb. 22, deputies stopped a vehicle for speeding on Highway 50, just east of Saffordville, nine miles east of Strong City, according to a media release. The investigation led to a search.

Inside the vehicle deputies found 10 pounds of marijuana, materials for growing marijuana, chemicals used to process marijuana for oil, and two firearms.

Deputies arrested a 47-year-old Seth Kindt Florida man on requested charges of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to manufacture/cultivate marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, criminal use of weapons, and no Kansas Drug Tax stamp.

His passenger, 75-year-old Duff Kindt from Ohio was also arrested on requested charges of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to manufacture/cultivate marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and no Kansas drug tax stamp.

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 <figcaption>Kindt-photo Chase Co. jail</figcaption>
 </figure>CHASE COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on drug allegations after a traffic stop.On Feb. 22, deputies stopped a vehicle for speeding on Highway 50, just east of Saffordville, nine miles east of Strong City, according to a media release. The investigation led to a search.Inside the vehicle deputies found 10 pounds of marijuana, materials for growing marijuana, chemicals used to process marijuana for oil, and two firearms.Deputies arrested a 47-year-old Seth Kindt Florida man on requested charges of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to manufacture/cultivate marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, criminal use of weapons, and no Kansas Drug Tax stamp.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1708965912237.png" alt="Duff Kindt-photo Osage Co." />
 <figcaption>Duff Kindt-photo Osage Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>His passenger, 75-year-old Duff Kindt from Ohio was also arrested on requested charges of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to manufacture/cultivate marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and no Kansas drug tax stamp.

Florida man caught with 10 pounds of pot, guns during Kan. traffic stop

NEW YORK (AP) — Seated in a courtroom witness box, Don Henley opened a large brown envelope Tuesday and paged through the aging yellow sheets of a legal pad.

“Well, it's got two song titles written on the top,” he explained when asked what it contained. “'After the Thrill is Gone' and ‘One of These Nights.’”

Then came another envelope and pad, and another, and one more. They bore 1970s drafts of lyrics to two other Eagles hits, “The Long Run" and "The Sad Cafe," in what Henley identified as his handwriting and occasionally that of band co-founder Glenn Frey.

It was the first glimpse in court of some of the physical pages at the heart of a trial involving&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-973e74e795416821e6f022895b47b78e">handwritten drafts of lyrics</a>&nbsp;to several Eagles songs, including the megahit “Hotel California," and Henley's decade-long effort to reclaim the documents.

After spending Monday&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/henley-hotel-california-lyrics-trial-eagles-aa5300708de790099f9f7d0ba3b8afcf">telling the New York court</a>&nbsp;about topics ranging from Eagles songwriting to his&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/don-henley-eagles-hotel-california-sex-worker-dae5d3c41ae5ad1071a06dbc74a957d7">past personal troubles</a>, the Eagles co-founder underwent further questioning Tuesday from lawyers for three collectibles experts who are on trial.

Henley was asked about the writing of "Hotel California" and how he didn't notice for decades that the handwritten pages were missing. He was also asked about his past cocaine use — retorting that he was no “drug-filled zombie” — and even about a $96 limousine bill from 1973.

He continued to insist that he never voluntarily gave up handwritten sheets from the Eagles’ 1976 release “Hotel California," the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/3c0b39a1bb5b4e44aafe2c4e05a4b67f">third-best-selling album ever</a>&nbsp;in the U.S.

“I believed that my property was stolen,” Henley said.

The album produced one of rock's most enduring hits, the song “Hotel California,” credited to Frey, Henley and guitarist Don Felder. Henley recalled that Felder provided a “very basic” tape with guitar chords and a drum-machine beat. Frey and Henley worked from that to craft the lyrics and three guitarists — “four, if you count the bass” — contributed, Henley said.

A prosecutor objected that the questions weren't relevant, but Judge Curtis Farber let them continue.

“I don’t know the relevance, but it’s interesting,” the judge said to laughter from the courtroom audience.

The defendants — Edward Kosinski, Craig Inciardi and Glenn Horowitz — are charged with scheming to conceal the lyrics pages' disputed ownership and sell them despite knowing that Henley claimed they had no right. The defendants have pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to criminally possess stolen property.

They're not accused of actually stealing the roughly 100 legal-pad sheets. Horowitz bought them in 2005 from writer Ed Sanders, who had worked with the Eagles decades earlier on a band&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-1b873edc7596bb736428fbf8fb431c1d">biography that never got published</a>. Horowitz later sold the documents to Inciardi and Kosinski, who then put some pages up for auction.

Sanders, who hasn't responded to messages about the case, isn't charged with any crime.

Henley bought back four pages of “Hotel California” song lyrics in 2012. He also went to authorities at the time, and again when more pages — some from the hit “Life in the Fast Lane” — turned up for sale in 2014 and 2016.

At the trial, Henley has testified that Sanders had no permission to keep or sell the pages, though he was allowed to view them in the course of writing the book.

“Mr. Sanders kept it in his residence, his garage, for 30 years, and then it was up for sale on the internet. I believed that that was a crime,” Henley told the court Tuesday.

He testified Monday that he didn't give permission for the “very personal, very private” lyrics drafts to be removed from his property in Malibu, California, though he acknowledged that he didn't recall the entirety of his conversations with the writer in the late 1970s and early '80s.

In a tape of a 1980 phone call that was played Monday in court, Henley said he'd “try to dig through” his lyrics drafts in order to aid Sanders' book.

Asked about the recording, Henley said he was talking about affording the writer “access. It’s not giving, it’s not gifting.”

Defense lawyers have sought to show that the Eagles provided Sanders with copious insider material. Attorney Scott Edelman pointed to the 1973 car-service receipt, which authorities said they found when searching Sanders' home.

Someone typed “Don Henley's offending limousine bill” on the slip, and Henley filled the margins with hand-written comments, according to testimony. The jottings weren't read aloud in court.

The defense also has tried to raise doubts about how clearly Henley remembers whatever he told Sanders during the book project, which spanned a tumultuous and fast-living period in Henley's past.

The Eagles broke up in 1980, and he was arrested that year after authorities said they found a 16-year-old girl naked and suffering from a drug overdose in his Los Angeles home. He later wrote to a probation officer that “my environment has led me to accept drugs as part of everyday life,” according to a letter presented in court. "

“Cocaine, by inducing feelings of confidence and even delusions of grandeur, gave me the courage I sometimes lacked to write songs and put my innermost feelings and emotions on public display,” Henley wrote in the undated letter in which he said he was giving up drugs. He had been sentenced to probation and a $2,500 fine after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

“Isn’t it a fact, sir, that you were using a significant amount of cocaine prior to the November (1980 arrest)?" Edelman asked.

“Significant?” Henley replied. “You know, ‘sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll’ is not revelatory.”

He said he used cocaine “intermittently” throughout the 1970s, but was always lucid when performing or doing business.

“If I was some sort of a drug-filled zombie, I couldn’t have accomplished everything I accomplished before 1980 and after 1980,” Henley said.

NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley resumed testifying Tuesday in&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-973e74e795416821e6f022895b47b78e">a trial over handwritten drafts of lyrics</a>&nbsp;to some of the Eagles' biggest hits, including “Hotel California," and his decade-long effort to reclaim the pages.

After spending Monday&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/henley-hotel-california-lyrics-trial-eagles-aa5300708de790099f9f7d0ba3b8afcf">telling the New York court</a>&nbsp;about topics ranging from Eagles songwriting to his&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/don-henley-eagles-hotel-california-sex-worker-dae5d3c41ae5ad1071a06dbc74a957d7">past personal troubles</a>, the Eagles co-founder underwent further questioning Tuesday from lawyers for the three men on trial in the case.

Edward Kosinski, Craig Inciardi and Glenn Horowitz are charged with scheming to conceal the pages' disputed ownership and sell them despite knowing that Henley claimed they had no right. The defendants have pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to criminally possess stolen property.

They're not charged with actually stealing the roughly 100 legal-pad sheets from the development of the Eagles' 1976 release “Hotel California," the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/3c0b39a1bb5b4e44aafe2c4e05a4b67f">third-best-selling album ever</a>&nbsp;in the U.S. The sheets include drafts of the words to the song “Hotel California,” one of rock's most enduring hits.

Horowitz bought the pages in 2005 from writer Ed Sanders, who worked with the Eagles decades earlier on a band&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-1b873edc7596bb736428fbf8fb431c1d">biography that never got published</a>. Horowitz later sold the the documents to Inciardi and Kosinski, who then put some pages up for auction.

Sanders isn't charged with any crime. He hasn't responded to messages about the case.

“I believed that my property was stolen, Mr. Sanders kept it in his residence, his garage, for 30 years, and then it was up for sale on the internet. I believed that that was a crime,” Henley told the court Tuesday.

In a tape Monday of a 1980 phone call that was played Monday in court, Henley said he'd “try to dig through” his lyrics drafts in order to aid Sanders' book.

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 </figure>NEW YORK (AP) — Seated in a courtroom witness box, Don Henley opened a large brown envelope Tuesday and paged through the aging yellow sheets of a legal pad.“Well, it's got two song titles written on the top,” he explained when asked what it contained. “'After the Thrill is Gone' and ‘One of These Nights.’”Then came another envelope and pad, and another, and one more. They bore 1970s drafts of lyrics to two other Eagles hits, “The Long Run" and "The Sad Cafe," in what Henley identified as his handwriting and occasionally that of band co-founder Glenn Frey.It was the first glimpse in court of some of the physical pages at the heart of a trial involving&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-973e74e795416821e6f022895b47b78e">handwritten drafts of lyrics</a>&nbsp;to several Eagles songs, including the megahit “Hotel California," and Henley's decade-long effort to reclaim the documents.After spending Monday&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/henley-hotel-california-lyrics-trial-eagles-aa5300708de790099f9f7d0ba3b8afcf">telling the New York court</a>&nbsp;about topics ranging from Eagles songwriting to his&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/don-henley-eagles-hotel-california-sex-worker-dae5d3c41ae5ad1071a06dbc74a957d7">past personal troubles</a>, the Eagles co-founder underwent further questioning Tuesday from lawyers for three collectibles experts who are on trial.Henley was asked about the writing of "Hotel California" and how he didn't notice for decades that the handwritten pages were missing. He was also asked about his past cocaine use — retorting that he was no “drug-filled zombie” — and even about a $96 limousine bill from 1973.He continued to insist that he never voluntarily gave up handwritten sheets from the Eagles’ 1976 release “Hotel California," the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/3c0b39a1bb5b4e44aafe2c4e05a4b67f">third-best-selling album ever</a>&nbsp;in the U.S.“I believed that my property was stolen,” Henley said.The album produced one of rock's most enduring hits, the song “Hotel California,” credited to Frey, Henley and guitarist Don Felder. Henley recalled that Felder provided a “very basic” tape with guitar chords and a drum-machine beat. Frey and Henley worked from that to craft the lyrics and three guitarists — “four, if you count the bass” — contributed, Henley said.A prosecutor objected that the questions weren't relevant, but Judge Curtis Farber let them continue.“I don’t know the relevance, but it’s interesting,” the judge said to laughter from the courtroom audience.The defendants — Edward Kosinski, Craig Inciardi and Glenn Horowitz — are charged with scheming to conceal the lyrics pages' disputed ownership and sell them despite knowing that Henley claimed they had no right. The defendants have pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to criminally possess stolen property.They're not accused of actually stealing the roughly 100 legal-pad sheets. Horowitz bought them in 2005 from writer Ed Sanders, who had worked with the Eagles decades earlier on a band&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-1b873edc7596bb736428fbf8fb431c1d">biography that never got published</a>. Horowitz later sold the documents to Inciardi and Kosinski, who then put some pages up for auction.Sanders, who hasn't responded to messages about the case, isn't charged with any crime.Henley bought back four pages of “Hotel California” song lyrics in 2012. He also went to authorities at the time, and again when more pages — some from the hit “Life in the Fast Lane” — turned up for sale in 2014 and 2016.At the trial, Henley has testified that Sanders had no permission to keep or sell the pages, though he was allowed to view them in the course of writing the book.“Mr. Sanders kept it in his residence, his garage, for 30 years, and then it was up for sale on the internet. I believed that that was a crime,” Henley told the court Tuesday.He testified Monday that he didn't give permission for the “very personal, very private” lyrics drafts to be removed from his property in Malibu, California, though he acknowledged that he didn't recall the entirety of his conversations with the writer in the late 1970s and early '80s.In a tape of a 1980 phone call that was played Monday in court, Henley said he'd “try to dig through” his lyrics drafts in order to aid Sanders' book.Asked about the recording, Henley said he was talking about affording the writer “access. It’s not giving, it’s not gifting.”Defense lawyers have sought to show that the Eagles provided Sanders with copious insider material. Attorney Scott Edelman pointed to the 1973 car-service receipt, which authorities said they found when searching Sanders' home.Someone typed “Don Henley's offending limousine bill” on the slip, and Henley filled the margins with hand-written comments, according to testimony. The jottings weren't read aloud in court.The defense also has tried to raise doubts about how clearly Henley remembers whatever he told Sanders during the book project, which spanned a tumultuous and fast-living period in Henley's past.The Eagles broke up in 1980, and he was arrested that year after authorities said they found a 16-year-old girl naked and suffering from a drug overdose in his Los Angeles home. He later wrote to a probation officer that “my environment has led me to accept drugs as part of everyday life,” according to a letter presented in court. "“Cocaine, by inducing feelings of confidence and even delusions of grandeur, gave me the courage I sometimes lacked to write songs and put my innermost feelings and emotions on public display,” Henley wrote in the undated letter in which he said he was giving up drugs. He had been sentenced to probation and a $2,500 fine after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.“Isn’t it a fact, sir, that you were using a significant amount of cocaine prior to the November (1980 arrest)?" Edelman asked.“Significant?” Henley replied. “You know, ‘sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll’ is not revelatory.”He said he used cocaine “intermittently” throughout the 1970s, but was always lucid when performing or doing business.“If I was some sort of a drug-filled zombie, I couldn’t have accomplished everything I accomplished before 1980 and after 1980,” Henley said.-----------------------NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley resumed testifying Tuesday in&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-973e74e795416821e6f022895b47b78e">a trial over handwritten drafts of lyrics</a>&nbsp;to some of the Eagles' biggest hits, including “Hotel California," and his decade-long effort to reclaim the pages.After spending Monday&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/henley-hotel-california-lyrics-trial-eagles-aa5300708de790099f9f7d0ba3b8afcf">telling the New York court</a>&nbsp;about topics ranging from Eagles songwriting to his&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/don-henley-eagles-hotel-california-sex-worker-dae5d3c41ae5ad1071a06dbc74a957d7">past personal troubles</a>, the Eagles co-founder underwent further questioning Tuesday from lawyers for the three men on trial in the case.Edward Kosinski, Craig Inciardi and Glenn Horowitz are charged with scheming to conceal the pages' disputed ownership and sell them despite knowing that Henley claimed they had no right. The defendants have pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to criminally possess stolen property.They're not charged with actually stealing the roughly 100 legal-pad sheets from the development of the Eagles' 1976 release “Hotel California," the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/3c0b39a1bb5b4e44aafe2c4e05a4b67f">third-best-selling album ever</a>&nbsp;in the U.S. The sheets include drafts of the words to the song “Hotel California,” one of rock's most enduring hits.Horowitz bought the pages in 2005 from writer Ed Sanders, who worked with the Eagles decades earlier on a band&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-1b873edc7596bb736428fbf8fb431c1d">biography that never got published</a>. Horowitz later sold the the documents to Inciardi and Kosinski, who then put some pages up for auction.Sanders isn't charged with any crime. He hasn't responded to messages about the case.Henley bought back four pages of “Hotel California” song lyrics in 2012. He also went to authorities at the time, and again when more pages — some from the hit “Life in the Fast Lane” — turned up for sale in 2014 and 2016.At the trial, Henley has testified that Sanders had no permission to keep or sell the pages, though he was allowed to view them in the course of writing the book.“I believed that my property was stolen, Mr. Sanders kept it in his residence, his garage, for 30 years, and then it was up for sale on the internet. I believed that that was a crime,” Henley told the court Tuesday.He testified Monday that he didn't give permission for the “very personal, very private” lyrics drafts to be removed from his property in Malibu, California, though he acknowledged that he didn't recall the entirety of his conversations with the writer in the late 1970s and early '80s.In a tape Monday of a 1980 phone call that was played Monday in court, Henley said he'd “try to dig through” his lyrics drafts in order to aid Sanders' book.Asked about the recording, Henley said he was talking about affording the writer “access. It’s not giving, it’s not gifting.”

In court, Don Henley recounts making of Eagles' megahit 'Hotel California'

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The man accused of firing the first shots at the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-super-bowl-parade-shooting-kansas-city-62e69a17b469b854afd7bcc3f548d1fc">Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally</a>&nbsp;told authorities he felt threatened, while a second man said he pulled the trigger because someone was shooting at him, according to court documents.

Experts say that even though the shooting left one bystander dead and roughly two dozen people injured, 23-year-old Lyndell Mays and 18-year-old Dominic Miller might have good cases for self-defense through the state’s “stand your ground” law.

Missouri is among more than 30 states that have adopted some version of stand your ground laws over the past two decades, said Robert Spitzer, a professor emeritus of political science at the State University of New York, Cortland, whose research focuses on gun policy and politics. While earlier laws allowed people to use force to protect themselves in their homes, stand your ground provides even broader self-defense rights regardless of the location.

Now, the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration could be a new test of those expanded protections, and comes as self-defense already is at the center of another&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/ralph-yarl/">high-profile Kansas City shooting</a>&nbsp;that left Ralph Yarl wounded.

“This illustrates in a dramatic way the fundamental problem, especially when it’s a public gathering where there are thousands and thousands of people, and even a highly trained police officer often cannot avoid injuring others in a gunfire exchange in a public place,” said Spitzer, who wrote the book “Guns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights.”

Trial attorney Daniel Ross described the stand your ground law as a “formidable defense” that he and many other Kansas City defense attorneys anticipate will be used in Mays' and Miller's cases. He said the law puts the onus on the prosecution to disprove claims that a shooting is lawful self-defense.

“Collateral damage under Missouri law is excused if you’re actually engaged in lawful self-defense and there’s other folks injured,” he said.

There are limits to the defense, however, said Eric Ruben, a law professor at the S.M.U. Dedman School of Law in Dallas who has written on stand your ground and self-defense immunity.

“Even though Missouri has robust stand-your-ground laws, that doesn’t mean you can spray bullets into a crowd in the name of defending yourself or others,” Ruben said.

The barrage of gunfire Feb. 14 outside Kansas City’s historic Union Station happened as the celebration that drew an estimated 1 million fans was concluding. A&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-super-bowl-parade-shooting-kansas-city-62e69a17b469b854afd7bcc3f548d1fc">woman died</a>&nbsp;while watching the rally with her family, and nearly two dozen others — more than half of them children — were injured and survived.

Kansas City already was grappling with the shooting of Yarl, a Black teenager, who survived a bullet wound to the head when he went to the wrong house in April 2023 to pick up his brothers. Andrew Lester, an 85-year-old white man, is planning to claim&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/kansas-wichita-topeka-legislature-gun-politics-6f61a926a56353a4b22ffecf90c46be3">self-defense</a>&nbsp;when he goes to trial in October. His attorney said the retiree was terrified by the stranger on his doorstep.

While the Super Bowl celebration shooting was a far different scenario, it raises anew questions about how far people can go to protect themselves and what happens when the innocent become victims.

Mays and Miller are each charged with second-degree murder and other counts.

Probable cause statements suggest that both men felt threatened. Mays said he picked out one person in a group at random and started shooting because they said, “I'm going to get you,” and he took that to mean, “I'm going to kill you,” the statement said.

Miller said under questioning that he fired four or five times because someone was shooting at him. His friend, Marques Harris, told&nbsp;<a href="https://fox4kc.com/news/friend-says-chiefs-parade-shooting-suspect-was-only-protecting-him/">WDAF-TV</a>&nbsp;that Miller was only trying to protect him after he was shot in the neck.

Miller’s attorney didn’t return phone and email messages seeking comment. No attorney was listed for Mays in online court records.

Two juveniles also face&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-super-bowl-parade-shooting-kansas-city-278e2d3e2cfece1cbe958511e54127ad">gun-related and resisting arrest</a>&nbsp;charges.

Missouri has&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-super-bowl-parade-shooting-kansas-city-938583b1e9aa3b3a45f8a012e7b80fee">few firearm regulations</a>, and two of its cities — Kansas City and St. Louis — annually have among the nation's highest homicide rates. Missouri’s current Republican lawmakers have largely defended the state’s gun laws, instead blaming prosecutors and other local elected officials in the two cities.

And Republican Gov. Mike Parson, speaking to reporters last week, cited societal problems — not guns — as the reason for the violence. “I believe it's much more than a gun," he said.

When&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/missouri-lawmakers-loosen-gun-laws-back-voter-photo-id-c973268d37704b9b9b221e59c5b5dc7d?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share">Republican lawmakers in 2016</a>&nbsp;expanded the state's already-extensive self-defense protections by enacting the current stand your ground law, Black Missouri lawmakers raised concerns. The law also allowed most adults to&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/missouri-lawmakers-loosen-gun-laws-back-voter-photo-id-c973268d37704b9b9b221e59c5b5dc7d?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share">carry concealed guns</a>&nbsp;without a permit.

Racial disparities are rife among those who invoke the defense, with an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/american-criminal-justice-color-blind-statistics-say-no">Urban Institute</a>&nbsp;study showing white shooters are more likely to benefit than Black defendants.

The issue was raised when&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-shootings-george-floyd-race-and-ethnicity-police-e063accd716fa3d0ee5f175163c0c5cb">Kyle Rittenhouse</a>, a white teen, was acquitted of killing two people and wounding a third during a 2020 protest against racism and police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after testifying he acted in self-defense. Rittenhouse’s actions became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S.

The shooting death of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/trayvon-martin">Trayvon Martin</a>, a Black 17-year-old, by&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/george-zimmerman">George Zimmerman</a>&nbsp;also spurred concerns about stand your ground laws. Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watchman who thought Martin looked suspicious, wasn’t arrested for 44 days after the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting as police in Sanford, Florida, insisted that Florida’s stand your ground law prohibited charges.

Zimmerman was eventually arrested and charged, but his attorneys chose not to pursue a stand your ground claim, which could have resulted in the dismissal of murder changes as well as immunity from prosecution. But during the trial, the law was essentially used as part of his self-defense argument. Jurors found him not guilty.

In Georgia, which also has a stand your ground law, three white men accused of fatally shooting&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-ahmaud-arberys-killing-spurred-a-national-reckoning-on-race">Ahmaud Arbery</a>&nbsp;in 2020 claimed self-defense. Travis McMichael, his father Greg McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan claimed they chased Arbery, who was Black, because they thought he was a burglar. All three were&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-live-three-men-convicted-of-the-murder-of-ahmaud-arbery-will-be-sentenced-for-the-killing">convicted of murder</a>.

In 2022, Wichita, Kansas, area district attorney Marc Bennett was critical of the state’s stand your ground law when he announced that he wouldn’t file charges over the death of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/wichita-kansas-a51f619b8b196987e74b046ac399680c">Cedric Lofton</a>, a Black 17-year-old who was restrained facedown for more than 30 minutes at a juvenile detention center. Bennett said the law prevented him from bringing charges because staff members were protecting themselves.

With the Chiefs parade case unfolding, it is time to look anew at these laws, said Melba Pearson, a former homicide prosecutor who is now the director of prosecution projects at the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy at Florida International University.

“What are truly the limits in terms of stand your ground and what really falls into the category of self-defense?" she asked. "Do we need to revisit what stand your ground looks like?”

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1708018861457.jpeg" alt="File-Police clear the area following a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs NFL football Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City.(AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)." />
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 </figure>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The man accused of firing the first shots at the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-super-bowl-parade-shooting-kansas-city-62e69a17b469b854afd7bcc3f548d1fc">Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally</a>&nbsp;told authorities he felt threatened, while a second man said he pulled the trigger because someone was shooting at him, according to court documents.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/2/1708552633722.png" alt="Mays photo Jackson Co." />
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 </figure>Experts say that even though the shooting left one bystander dead and roughly two dozen people injured, 23-year-old Lyndell Mays and 18-year-old Dominic Miller might have good cases for self-defense through the state’s “stand your ground” law.Missouri is among more than 30 states that have adopted some version of stand your ground laws over the past two decades, said Robert Spitzer, a professor emeritus of political science at the State University of New York, Cortland, whose research focuses on gun policy and politics. While earlier laws allowed people to use force to protect themselves in their homes, stand your ground provides even broader self-defense rights regardless of the location.Now, the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration could be a new test of those expanded protections, and comes as self-defense already is at the center of another&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/ralph-yarl/">high-profile Kansas City shooting</a>&nbsp;that left Ralph Yarl wounded.“This illustrates in a dramatic way the fundamental problem, especially when it’s a public gathering where there are thousands and thousands of people, and even a highly trained police officer often cannot avoid injuring others in a gunfire exchange in a public place,” said Spitzer, who wrote the book “Guns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights.”Trial attorney Daniel Ross described the stand your ground law as a “formidable defense” that he and many other Kansas City defense attorneys anticipate will be used in Mays' and Miller's cases. He said the law puts the onus on the prosecution to disprove claims that a shooting is lawful self-defense.“Collateral damage under Missouri law is excused if you’re actually engaged in lawful self-defense and there’s other folks injured,” he said.There are limits to the defense, however, said Eric Ruben, a law professor at the S.M.U. Dedman School of Law in Dallas who has written on stand your ground and self-defense immunity.“Even though Missouri has robust stand-your-ground laws, that doesn’t mean you can spray bullets into a crowd in the name of defending yourself or others,” Ruben said.The barrage of gunfire Feb. 14 outside Kansas City’s historic Union Station happened as the celebration that drew an estimated 1 million fans was concluding. A&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-super-bowl-parade-shooting-kansas-city-62e69a17b469b854afd7bcc3f548d1fc">woman died</a>&nbsp;while watching the rally with her family, and nearly two dozen others — more than half of them children — were injured and survived.Kansas City already was grappling with the shooting of Yarl, a Black teenager, who survived a bullet wound to the head when he went to the wrong house in April 2023 to pick up his brothers. Andrew Lester, an 85-year-old white man, is planning to claim&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/kansas-wichita-topeka-legislature-gun-politics-6f61a926a56353a4b22ffecf90c46be3">self-defense</a>&nbsp;when he goes to trial in October. His attorney said the retiree was terrified by the stranger on his doorstep.While the Super Bowl celebration shooting was a far different scenario, it raises anew questions about how far people can go to protect themselves and what happens when the innocent become victims.Mays and Miller are each charged with second-degree murder and other counts.Probable cause statements suggest that both men felt threatened. Mays said he picked out one person in a group at random and started shooting because they said, “I'm going to get you,” and he took that to mean, “I'm going to kill you,” the statement said.Miller said under questioning that he fired four or five times because someone was shooting at him. His friend, Marques Harris, told&nbsp;<a href="https://fox4kc.com/news/friend-says-chiefs-parade-shooting-suspect-was-only-protecting-him/">WDAF-TV</a>&nbsp;that Miller was only trying to protect him after he was shot in the neck.Miller’s attorney didn’t return phone and email messages seeking comment. No attorney was listed for Mays in online court records.Two juveniles also face&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-super-bowl-parade-shooting-kansas-city-278e2d3e2cfece1cbe958511e54127ad">gun-related and resisting arrest</a>&nbsp;charges.Missouri has&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-super-bowl-parade-shooting-kansas-city-938583b1e9aa3b3a45f8a012e7b80fee">few firearm regulations</a>, and two of its cities — Kansas City and St. Louis — annually have among the nation's highest homicide rates. Missouri’s current Republican lawmakers have largely defended the state’s gun laws, instead blaming prosecutors and other local elected officials in the two cities.And Republican Gov. Mike Parson, speaking to reporters last week, cited societal problems — not guns — as the reason for the violence. “I believe it's much more than a gun," he said.When&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/missouri-lawmakers-loosen-gun-laws-back-voter-photo-id-c973268d37704b9b9b221e59c5b5dc7d?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share">Republican lawmakers in 2016</a>&nbsp;expanded the state's already-extensive self-defense protections by enacting the current stand your ground law, Black Missouri lawmakers raised concerns. The law also allowed most adults to&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/missouri-lawmakers-loosen-gun-laws-back-voter-photo-id-c973268d37704b9b9b221e59c5b5dc7d?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share">carry concealed guns</a>&nbsp;without a permit.Racial disparities are rife among those who invoke the defense, with an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/american-criminal-justice-color-blind-statistics-say-no">Urban Institute</a>&nbsp;study showing white shooters are more likely to benefit than Black defendants.The issue was raised when&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-shootings-george-floyd-race-and-ethnicity-police-e063accd716fa3d0ee5f175163c0c5cb">Kyle Rittenhouse</a>, a white teen, was acquitted of killing two people and wounding a third during a 2020 protest against racism and police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after testifying he acted in self-defense. Rittenhouse’s actions became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S.The shooting death of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/trayvon-martin">Trayvon Martin</a>, a Black 17-year-old, by&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/george-zimmerman">George Zimmerman</a>&nbsp;also spurred concerns about stand your ground laws. Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watchman who thought Martin looked suspicious, wasn’t arrested for 44 days after the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting as police in Sanford, Florida, insisted that Florida’s stand your ground law prohibited charges.Zimmerman was eventually arrested and charged, but his attorneys chose not to pursue a stand your ground claim, which could have resulted in the dismissal of murder changes as well as immunity from prosecution. But during the trial, the law was essentially used as part of his self-defense argument. Jurors found him not guilty.In Georgia, which also has a stand your ground law, three white men accused of fatally shooting&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-ahmaud-arberys-killing-spurred-a-national-reckoning-on-race">Ahmaud Arbery</a>&nbsp;in 2020 claimed self-defense. Travis McMichael, his father Greg McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan claimed they chased Arbery, who was Black, because they thought he was a burglar. All three were&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-live-three-men-convicted-of-the-murder-of-ahmaud-arbery-will-be-sentenced-for-the-killing">convicted of murder</a>.In 2022, Wichita, Kansas, area district attorney Marc Bennett was critical of the state’s stand your ground law when he announced that he wouldn’t file charges over the death of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/wichita-kansas-a51f619b8b196987e74b046ac399680c">Cedric Lofton</a>, a Black 17-year-old who was restrained facedown for more than 30 minutes at a juvenile detention center. Bennett said the law prevented him from bringing charges because staff members were protecting themselves.With the Chiefs parade case unfolding, it is time to look anew at these laws, said Melba Pearson, a former homicide prosecutor who is now the director of prosecution projects at the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy at Florida International University.“What are truly the limits in terms of stand your ground and what really falls into the category of self-defense?" she asked. "Do we need to revisit what stand your ground looks like?”

Chiefs rally shooting could test expanded 'stand your ground' protections

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Lauren Walters, Failure to appear, arrested 02/26

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Geary County Booking Photos Feb. 27

MORRIS COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Manhattan man on multiple allegations after a weekend traffic stop.

Just after 11:30p.m. Feb. 24, a sheriff's deputy conducted a traffic stop on a Toyota Corolla for a traffic violation on U.S. Highway 77 and M Avenue, according to a media release.

Sheriff's K9 Kimber conducted a free air sniff of the vehicle and indicated to the oder of narcotics emitting from within the car.

After a probably cause search of the car, the deputy arrested 31-year-old Ryan C. Kelly of Manhattan on requested charges of possession of meth, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving while license canceled, suspended or revoked.&nbsp; He is being held in Chase County.

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 </figure>MORRIS COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Manhattan man on multiple allegations after a weekend traffic stop.Just after 11:30p.m. Feb. 24, a sheriff's deputy conducted a traffic stop on a Toyota Corolla for a traffic violation on U.S. Highway 77 and M Avenue, according to a media release.Sheriff's K9 Kimber conducted a free air sniff of the vehicle and indicated to the oder of narcotics emitting from within the car.After a probably cause search of the car, the deputy arrested 31-year-old Ryan C. Kelly of Manhattan on requested charges of possession of meth, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving while license canceled, suspended or revoked.&nbsp; He is being held in Chase County.

Manhattan man jailed after sheriff's K9 alerts to drugs in car

SEDGWICK COUNTY — Three suspects accused in a shooting that killed a toddler at a Wichita apartment complex made their first appearances in court Monday.

The 17-year-old boy,&nbsp;25-year-old K’Veion Richard and 21-year-old Jonathan Tillery-Matthias all of Wichita, were charged with 1st&nbsp;degree murder and criminal discharge of a firearm, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office.

Just after 7p.m. February 19, police responded to a shooting in the 2500 block of South Oliver, according to Police Lt. Aaron Moses. Through the investigation, officers learned that two adult females were struck by gunfire and 1-year-old Taidyn Anderson was also struck by gunfire and died of his injuries.

Investigators with the WPD homicide section have been diligently working this case since the shooting occurred. That work has included follow-up on leads, utilizing technology and executing search warrants. Through the investigation, three suspects were identified.

On Thursday, the Wichita Police Department arrested three suspects including a 17-year-old boy,&nbsp;<a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=232072">Richard</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=746317">Tillery-Matthias&nbsp;</a>

<a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=746317">Tillery-Matthias</a>&nbsp;was currently on pre-trial supervision for Criminal Discharge of a Firearm into an Occupied Vehicle stemming from a Wichita Police investigation.<a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=232072"> Richard </a>was on Parole for Criminal Discharge of a Firearm, Aggravated Burglary, Aggravated Assault x2, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon.

Police believe that this was a targeted event which led to the death of the child.

Tillery-Mattias and Richard are scheduled for another court apperance on March 6.&nbsp; Each is being held on bonds of one-point-five million dollars.&nbsp; &nbsp;The district attorney's office did not have an update on future court appearances for the teen suspect.

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 </figure>SEDGWICK COUNTY — Three suspects accused in a shooting that killed a toddler at a Wichita apartment complex made their first appearances in court Monday.The 17-year-old boy,&nbsp;25-year-old K’Veion Richard and 21-year-old Jonathan Tillery-Matthias all of Wichita, were charged with 1st&nbsp;degree murder and criminal discharge of a firearm, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office.Just after 7p.m. February 19, police responded to a shooting in the 2500 block of South Oliver, according to Police Lt. Aaron Moses. Through the investigation, officers learned that two adult females were struck by gunfire and 1-year-old Taidyn Anderson was also struck by gunfire and died of his injuries.<figure>
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 </figure>Investigators with the WPD homicide section have been diligently working this case since the shooting occurred. That work has included follow-up on leads, utilizing technology and executing search warrants. Through the investigation, three suspects were identified.<figure>
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 </figure>On Thursday, the Wichita Police Department arrested three suspects including a 17-year-old boy,&nbsp;<a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=232072">Richard</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=746317">Tillery-Matthias&nbsp;</a><a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=746317">Tillery-Matthias</a>&nbsp;was currently on pre-trial supervision for Criminal Discharge of a Firearm into an Occupied Vehicle stemming from a Wichita Police investigation.<a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=232072"> Richard </a>was on Parole for Criminal Discharge of a Firearm, Aggravated Burglary, Aggravated Assault x2, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon.Police believe that this was a targeted event which led to the death of the child.Tillery-Mattias and Richard are scheduled for another court apperance on March 6.&nbsp; Each is being held on bonds of one-point-five million dollars.&nbsp; &nbsp;The district attorney's office did not have an update on future court appearances for the teen suspect.

17-year-old, 2 adults charged in death of Kansas toddler

KANSAS CITY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a murder and have issued an arrest warrant for 33-year-old Anthony W. Taylor of Kansas City, Kansas, according to the Blue Springs Police Department.

Just after 11:45p.m. February 25, Taylor was involved in the shooting of a man identified as Cornell Elam in the 300 Block of NW Summit in Blue Springs. First responders transported Elam to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased,

Taylor is described as 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Taylor should contact police. He should be considered armed and dangerous.

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 </figure>KANSAS CITY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a murder and have issued an arrest warrant for 33-year-old Anthony W. Taylor of Kansas City, Kansas, according to the Blue Springs Police Department.Just after 11:45p.m. February 25, Taylor was involved in the shooting of a man identified as Cornell Elam in the 300 Block of NW Summit in Blue Springs. First responders transported Elam to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased,<figure>
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 </figure>Taylor is described as 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Taylor should contact police. He should be considered armed and dangerous.

Police ask for help to locate Kansas man wanted for murder 

JACKSON COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities are investigating three suspects on drug allegations;

Just before 3p.m. Feb. 23, a&nbsp;Sheriff’s Deputy stopped a 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt for a traffic infraction on U.S. Highway 75 near 134th&nbsp;Road, according to Sheriff Tim Morse. During the course of the traffic stop deputies seized illegal drug contraband.&nbsp; All three occupants of the vehicle were arrested.

The driver, Misty Lynn Lang, 40, of Topeka, was arrested and booked into the Jackson County Jail for distribution of fentanyl, possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance and no insurance.

Patricia Darlene Nichols, 46, of Wamego, was arrested and booked into the Jackson County Jail for distribution of fentanyl, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Marques Alan Cates, 28, of Topeka, was arrested and booked into the Jackson County Jail for distribution of fentanyl, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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 </figure>JACKSON COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities are investigating three suspects on drug allegations;Just before 3p.m. Feb. 23, a&nbsp;Sheriff’s Deputy stopped a 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt for a traffic infraction on U.S. Highway 75 near 134th&nbsp;Road, according to Sheriff Tim Morse. During the course of the traffic stop deputies seized illegal drug contraband.&nbsp; All three occupants of the vehicle were arrested.The driver, Misty Lynn Lang, 40, of Topeka, was arrested and booked into the Jackson County Jail for distribution of fentanyl, possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance and no insurance.<figure>
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 </figure>Patricia Darlene Nichols, 46, of Wamego, was arrested and booked into the Jackson County Jail for distribution of fentanyl, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.<figure>
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 </figure>Marques Alan Cates, 28, of Topeka, was arrested and booked into the Jackson County Jail for distribution of fentanyl, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Sheriff: 3 suspects accused of selling fentanyl in Kansas

SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities continue investigating another deadly shooting in Wichita and have identified the suspect as 20-year-old <a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=746460">John Aurthur Griffin,</a> according to Sedgwick County arrest records.&nbsp;

Griffin&nbsp; had been in prison for portion of 2022 and 2023 after a conviction for Battery Juvenile Corrections Facility officer, Employer person confined, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. During his time his approximately 18 months in prison, Griffin had been disciplined nearly three dozen times for battery, theft, fighting and other crimes, according to the KDOC.

Subsequent investigation led the arrest of Griffin who will face a requested charges of Capital Murder, Child Endangerment, and Felon in Possession of a Firearm, according to Gupilan.

The circumstances surrounding this incident remain under active investigation. 

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 </figure>SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities continue investigating another deadly shooting in Wichita and have identified the suspect as 20-year-old <a href="https://ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/InmateSearch/Details.aspx?Id=746460">John Aurthur Griffin,</a> according to Sedgwick County arrest records.&nbsp; Griffin&nbsp; had been in prison for portion of 2022 and 2023 after a conviction for Battery Juvenile Corrections Facility officer, Employer person confined, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. During his time his approximately 18 months in prison, Griffin had been disciplined nearly three dozen times for battery, theft, fighting and other crimes, according to the KDOC.<figure>
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 </figure>Just before 9:30a.m. Saturday, police were dispatched to a shooting call&nbsp; in the 7300 block of E. Kellogg, according to Officer Kris Gupilan.First responders located two shooting victims in a motel room identified as&nbsp;35-year-old Christopher Harrell and 35-year-old Natisha Phillips both of Wichita.EMS transported Harrell to a local area hospital where he was pronounced deceased. Phillips was pronounced deceased on the scene. Officers also located a young child at the scene, who was unharmed, and police are using resources to address any psychological or medical needs for the child.&nbsp;Subsequent investigation led the arrest of Griffin who will face a requested charges of Capital Murder, Child Endangerment, and Felon in Possession of a Firearm, according to Gupilan.The circumstances surrounding this incident remain under active investigation.

Suspect in Kan. double-homicide spent violent time in prison

NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley said Monday that he never gave away handwritten pages of draft lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits, calling them “very personal" in testimony that also delved into an ugly but unrelated episode:&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/don-henley-eagles-hotel-california-sex-worker-dae5d3c41ae5ad1071a06dbc74a957d7">his 1980 arrest</a>.

Henley, the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/don-henley">Grammy-winning co-founder</a>&nbsp;of one of the most successful bands in rock history, is prosecutors' star witness in an unusual criminal trial surrounding the lyrics sheets.

Henley says they were stolen decades ago from his barn in Malibu, California. He testified Monday that he was appalled when the material began turning up at auctions in 2012.

“It just wasn’t something that was for public viewing. It was our process. It was something very personal, very private,” he said in a raspy drawl. “I still wouldn’t show that to anybody.”

The defendants are three collectibles experts who bought the pages years later through a writer who had worked with the Eagles on&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-1b873edc7596bb736428fbf8fb431c1d">a never-published band biography</a>. The defense maintains that Henley willingly gave them to the scribe.

Under cross-examination, Henley acknowledged that he didn't remember “the entirety” of his conversations with the writer, Ed Sanders, who isn't charged in the case. Nor, Henley said, could he recall whether he gave Sanders permission to take the documents off the property.

But Henley insisted he gave Sanders only access to the documents, not permanent possession of them, in the hopes that a firsthand view of “the time and effort that went into” the lyrics would improve the book.

He said he told Sanders he could look at the pages, ideally at a breakfast table in an apartment upstairs from the barn.

“I never gave him permission to keep those items,” Henley said.

At issue are about 100 sheets of legal-pad paper inscribed with lyrics-in-the-making for multiple songs on the “Hotel California” album, including “Life in the Fast Lane,” “New Kid in Town” and the title track that turned into one of the most durable hits in rock. Famed for its lengthy guitar solo and puzzlingly poetic lyrics, the song still gets streamed hundreds of millions of times a year.

The defendants — rare-book dealer Glenn Horowitz and rock memorabilia specialists Craig Inciardi and Edward Kosinski — have pleaded not guilty to charges including criminally possessing stolen property. Their lawyers say there was nothing illegal in what happened to the lyrics sheets.

The defense has signaled that it plans to question Henley, 76, about how clearly he remembers his conversations with Sanders during an era in which the rocker was living in his own fast lane. In an apparent attempt to defuse some of those questions, a prosecutor brought up Henley's 1980 arrest.

Henley pleaded no contest in 1981 to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, after authorities found cocaine, quaaludes, marijuana and a naked 16-year-old girl suffering from an overdose at his Los Angeles home the prior November. He was sentenced to probation and a $2,500 fine, and he requested a drug education program to get some possession charges dismissed.

Henley testified Monday that he'd been depressed about the Eagles 1980 breakup and had sought “an escape” by calling for a sex worker that night.

“I made a poor decision which I regret to this day," he said.

As for his memory, he said, “I can’t tell you what I had for breakfast last Friday morning, but I can tell you where we stayed when we played Wembley in 1975 and we opened for Elton John and the Beach Boys,” referring to London's Wembley Stadium.

Sanders began working with the Eagles in 1979 on a band biography that&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-1b873edc7596bb736428fbf8fb431c1d">never made it into print</a>. He sold the documents to Horowitz, who sold them to Kosinski and Inciardi. Kosinski has a rock ‘n’ roll collectibles auction site; Inciardi was then a curator at the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame.

In a 2005 email to Horowitz, Sanders said Henley’s assistant had sent him the documents for&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-8ec3a28657365ecce6bfd4003ead494a">the biography project,</a>&nbsp;according to the indictment.

Henley reported them stolen after Inciardi and Kosinski began in 2012 to offer them at various auctions.

Henley also bought four pages back for $8,500 in 2012. He testified that he resented having to buy back what he contends was his own property. But he said he saw it as “the most practical and expedient” way to get the auction listing, which contained photos of the lyrics sheets, off the internet.

Kosinski’s lawyers, however, have argued that the transaction implicitly recognized his ownership.

Meanwhile, Horowitz and Inciardi started ginning up alternate stories of how Sanders got hold of the manuscripts, Manhattan prosecutors say.

Among the alternate stories were that they were left behind backstage at an Eagles concert, that Sanders received them from someone he couldn’t recall, and that he got them from Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, according to emails recounted in the indictment. Frey&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-music-8169f05ac21d43dda4b1c1dd8b065e28">had died</a>&nbsp;by the time Horowitz broached that last option in 2017.

Sanders contributed to or signed onto some explanations, according to the emails. He hasn’t responded to messages seeking comment about the case.

Kosinski forwarded one of the various explanations to Henley’s lawyer, then told an auction house that the rocker had “no claim” to the documents, the indictment says.

Henley has been a fierce advocate for artists’ rights to their work. Since the late 1990s, he and a musician' rights group that he co-founded have spoken out in venues from the Supreme Court to Congress about copyright law, online file-sharing and more. As recently as 2002, Henley&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/23e26c38a9a6fbf3d7451c42b058c216">testified to Congress</a>&nbsp;to urge copyright law updates to fight online piracy.

Henley also sued a Senate candidate over unauthorized use of some of the musician's solo songs in a campaign spot. Another Henley suit hit a clothing company that made t-shirts emblazoned with a pun on his name. Both cases ended in settlements and apologies from the defendants.

NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley testified Monday that a “poor decision” led to his arrest in 1980, when authorities said they found drugs and a 16-year-old sex worker suffering from an overdose at his Los Angeles home.

Henley was asked about the arrest as he testified at a criminal trial surrounding what he says were stolen, handwritten&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-973e74e795416821e6f022895b47b78e">draft lyrics to “Hotel California”</a>&nbsp;and other Eagles hits.

Henley said he called for a sex worker on a night in November 1980 because he “wanted to escape the depression I was in” over the breakup of the superstar band.

“I wanted to forget about everything that was happening with the band, and I made a poor decision which I regret to this day. I’ve had to live with it for 44 years. I’m still living with it today, in this courtroom. Poor decision,” the 76-year-old testified in a raspy drawl.

As he has in the past, Henley said he didn't know the girl's age until after his arrest and that he did cocaine with and went to bed with the girl, but never had sex with her.

“I don’t remember the anatomical details, but I know there was no sex,” he said.

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 </figure>NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley said Monday that he never gave away handwritten pages of draft lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits, calling them “very personal" in testimony that also delved into an ugly but unrelated episode:&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/don-henley-eagles-hotel-california-sex-worker-dae5d3c41ae5ad1071a06dbc74a957d7">his 1980 arrest</a>.Henley, the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/don-henley">Grammy-winning co-founder</a>&nbsp;of one of the most successful bands in rock history, is prosecutors' star witness in an unusual criminal trial surrounding the lyrics sheets.Henley says they were stolen decades ago from his barn in Malibu, California. He testified Monday that he was appalled when the material began turning up at auctions in 2012.“It just wasn’t something that was for public viewing. It was our process. It was something very personal, very private,” he said in a raspy drawl. “I still wouldn’t show that to anybody.”The defendants are three collectibles experts who bought the pages years later through a writer who had worked with the Eagles on&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-1b873edc7596bb736428fbf8fb431c1d">a never-published band biography</a>. The defense maintains that Henley willingly gave them to the scribe.Under cross-examination, Henley acknowledged that he didn't remember “the entirety” of his conversations with the writer, Ed Sanders, who isn't charged in the case. Nor, Henley said, could he recall whether he gave Sanders permission to take the documents off the property.But Henley insisted he gave Sanders only access to the documents, not permanent possession of them, in the hopes that a firsthand view of “the time and effort that went into” the lyrics would improve the book.He said he told Sanders he could look at the pages, ideally at a breakfast table in an apartment upstairs from the barn.“I never gave him permission to keep those items,” Henley said.At issue are about 100 sheets of legal-pad paper inscribed with lyrics-in-the-making for multiple songs on the “Hotel California” album, including “Life in the Fast Lane,” “New Kid in Town” and the title track that turned into one of the most durable hits in rock. Famed for its lengthy guitar solo and puzzlingly poetic lyrics, the song still gets streamed hundreds of millions of times a year.The defendants — rare-book dealer Glenn Horowitz and rock memorabilia specialists Craig Inciardi and Edward Kosinski — have pleaded not guilty to charges including criminally possessing stolen property. Their lawyers say there was nothing illegal in what happened to the lyrics sheets.The defense has signaled that it plans to question Henley, 76, about how clearly he remembers his conversations with Sanders during an era in which the rocker was living in his own fast lane. In an apparent attempt to defuse some of those questions, a prosecutor brought up Henley's 1980 arrest.Henley pleaded no contest in 1981 to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, after authorities found cocaine, quaaludes, marijuana and a naked 16-year-old girl suffering from an overdose at his Los Angeles home the prior November. He was sentenced to probation and a $2,500 fine, and he requested a drug education program to get some possession charges dismissed.Henley testified Monday that he'd been depressed about the Eagles 1980 breakup and had sought “an escape” by calling for a sex worker that night.“I made a poor decision which I regret to this day," he said.As for his memory, he said, “I can’t tell you what I had for breakfast last Friday morning, but I can tell you where we stayed when we played Wembley in 1975 and we opened for Elton John and the Beach Boys,” referring to London's Wembley Stadium.Sanders began working with the Eagles in 1979 on a band biography that&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-1b873edc7596bb736428fbf8fb431c1d">never made it into print</a>. He sold the documents to Horowitz, who sold them to Kosinski and Inciardi. Kosinski has a rock ‘n’ roll collectibles auction site; Inciardi was then a curator at the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame.In a 2005 email to Horowitz, Sanders said Henley’s assistant had sent him the documents for&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-8ec3a28657365ecce6bfd4003ead494a">the biography project,</a>&nbsp;according to the indictment.Henley reported them stolen after Inciardi and Kosinski began in 2012 to offer them at various auctions.Henley also bought four pages back for $8,500 in 2012. He testified that he resented having to buy back what he contends was his own property. But he said he saw it as “the most practical and expedient” way to get the auction listing, which contained photos of the lyrics sheets, off the internet.Kosinski’s lawyers, however, have argued that the transaction implicitly recognized his ownership.Meanwhile, Horowitz and Inciardi started ginning up alternate stories of how Sanders got hold of the manuscripts, Manhattan prosecutors say.Among the alternate stories were that they were left behind backstage at an Eagles concert, that Sanders received them from someone he couldn’t recall, and that he got them from Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, according to emails recounted in the indictment. Frey&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-music-8169f05ac21d43dda4b1c1dd8b065e28">had died</a>&nbsp;by the time Horowitz broached that last option in 2017.Sanders contributed to or signed onto some explanations, according to the emails. He hasn’t responded to messages seeking comment about the case.Kosinski forwarded one of the various explanations to Henley’s lawyer, then told an auction house that the rocker had “no claim” to the documents, the indictment says.Henley has been a fierce advocate for artists’ rights to their work. Since the late 1990s, he and a musician' rights group that he co-founded have spoken out in venues from the Supreme Court to Congress about copyright law, online file-sharing and more. As recently as 2002, Henley&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/23e26c38a9a6fbf3d7451c42b058c216">testified to Congress</a>&nbsp;to urge copyright law updates to fight online piracy.Henley also sued a Senate candidate over unauthorized use of some of the musician's solo songs in a campaign spot. Another Henley suit hit a clothing company that made t-shirts emblazoned with a pun on his name. Both cases ended in settlements and apologies from the defendants.--------------NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley testified Monday that a “poor decision” led to his arrest in 1980, when authorities said they found drugs and a 16-year-old sex worker suffering from an overdose at his Los Angeles home.Henley was asked about the arrest as he testified at a criminal trial surrounding what he says were stolen, handwritten&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-973e74e795416821e6f022895b47b78e">draft lyrics to “Hotel California”</a>&nbsp;and other Eagles hits.Henley said he called for a sex worker on a night in November 1980 because he “wanted to escape the depression I was in” over the breakup of the superstar band.“I wanted to forget about everything that was happening with the band, and I made a poor decision which I regret to this day. I’ve had to live with it for 44 years. I’m still living with it today, in this courtroom. Poor decision,” the 76-year-old testified in a raspy drawl.As he has in the past, Henley said he didn't know the girl's age until after his arrest and that he did cocaine with and went to bed with the girl, but never had sex with her.“I don’t remember the anatomical details, but I know there was no sex,” he said.He said he called firefighters, who checked the girl's health, found her to be OK and left, with him promising to take care of her. The paramedics, who found her in the nude, called police, authorities said at the time.Henley said Monday that she recovered and was preparing to leave with a friend she'd had him call, when police arrived hours later.Authorities said at the time that they found cocaine, quaaludes and marijuana at his Los Angeles home.Henley pleaded no contest in 1981 to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was sentenced to probation and a $2,500 fine, and he requested a drug education program to get some possession charges dismissed.Henley was in the New York courtroom Monday to talk about something else — his version of how handwritten pages from the development of the band's&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/3c0b39a1bb5b4e44aafe2c4e05a4b67f">blockbuster 1976 album</a>&nbsp;made their way from his Southern California barn to New York auctions decades later.But a prosecutor asked about the arrest early on, apparently to do so before defense lawyers could.The Grammy-winning singer and drummer and vociferous artists'-rights activist is prosecutors' star witness at the trial, where three collectibles professionals face charges including criminally possessing stolen property.They're accused of colluding to veil the documents' questioned ownership in order to try to sell them and deflect Henley's demands for their return.The defendants — rare-book dealer Glenn Horowitz and rock memorabilia specialists Craig Inciardi and Edward Kosinski — have pleaded not guilty. Their lawyers say there was nothing illegal in what happened to the lyric sheets.At issue are about 100 sheets of legal-pad paper inscribed with lyrics-in-the-making for multiple songs on the “Hotel California” album, including “Life in the Fast Lane,” “New Kid in Town” and the title track that turned into one of the most durable hits in rock. Famed for its lengthy guitar solo and puzzlingly poetic lyrics, the song still gets streamed hundreds of millions of times a year.The defendants acquired the pages through writer Ed Sanders, who began working with the Eagles in 1979 on a band biography that&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-1b873edc7596bb736428fbf8fb431c1d">never made it into print</a>.He sold the documents to Horowitz, who sold them to Kosinski and Inciardi. Kosinski has a rock ‘n’ roll collectibles auction site; Inciardi was then a curator at the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame.In a 2005 email to Horowitz, Sanders said Henley's assistant had sent him the documents for&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hotel-california-lyrics-manuscript-trial-eagles-henley-8ec3a28657365ecce6bfd4003ead494a">the biography project,</a>&nbsp;according to the indictment.Henley, however, testified Monday that he only gave the biographer access to the documents, not possession of them, and that he never wanted them to become public.They contain, he said, "some of the stupid stuff we wrote down before we got to the final lyrics of the songs.“It just wasn't something that was for public viewing. It was our process. It was something very personal, very private,” he said. “I still wouldn't show that to anybody.”He reported them stolen after Inciardi and Kosinski began in 2012 to offer them at various auctions.Henley also bought four pages back for $8,500 in 2012. He testified that he resented having to buy back what he contends was his own property. But he said he saw it as “the most practical and expedient” way to get the auction listing, which contained photos of the lyrics sheets, off the internet.Kosinski's lawyers, however, have argued that the transaction implicitly recognized his ownership.Meanwhile, Horowitz and Inciardi started ginning up alternate stories of how Sanders got hold of the manuscripts, Manhattan prosecutors say.Among the alternate stories were that they were left behind backstage at an Eagles concert, that Sanders received them from someone he couldn't recall, and that he got them from Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, according to emails recounted in the indictment. Frey&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-music-8169f05ac21d43dda4b1c1dd8b065e28">had died</a>&nbsp;by the time Horowitz broached that last option in 2017.Sanders contributed to or signed onto some explanations, according to the emails. He hasn't been charged with any crime and hasn't responded to messages seeking comment about the case.Kosinski forwarded one of the various explanations to Henley’s lawyer, then told an auction house that the rocker had “no claim” to the documents, the indictment says.Henley has been a fierce advocate for artists’ rights to their work.He tangled with Congress over a 1999 copyright law change that affected musicians’ ability to reclaim ownership of their old recordings from record labels. After complaints from Henley and other musicians, Congress unwound the change the next year.Meanwhile, Henley helped establish a musicians' rights group that spoke out in venues from Congress to the Supreme Court against online file-sharing platforms. Some popular services at the time let users trade digital recordings for free. The music industry contended that the exchanges flouted copyright laws.Henley and some other major artists applauded a 2005 high court ruling that cleared a path for record labels to sue file-swapping services.Henley also sued a Senate candidate over unauthorized use of some of the musician's solo songs in a campaign spot. Another Henley suit hit a clothing company that made t-shirts emblazoned with a pun on his name. Both cases ended in settlements and apologies from the defendants.