A jury trial setting is now on the Lyon County docket as part of a vehicular murder case stemming from a crash near Emporia last year.
On Friday, Judge Jeff Larson set a final pretrial hearing date of Aug. 28 in the case against Travis Duane Edwards. He also set a motions hearing on Aug. 16. Trial is now set to begin Sept. 3 and last most of that week.
Larson also reassigned those proceedings to Judge Laura Miser.
Edwards is charged with two counts of second-degree murder, as well as three counts of aggravated battery and one count of interfering with law enforcement. Charges follow a crash on US Highway 50 near Road C in April 2023 where two people were killed. Edwards and three other people were hurt in the wreck.
Meanwhile, a preliminary hearing will take place in another vehicular murder case working through the Lyon County District Court system.
Adonis Dailey was cleared for a hearing July 23 after a recent review hearing. Rick Meier was appointed as defense counsel for Dailey as part of that review hearing.
Dailey is accused of first-degree murder in the traffic death of Kejuan Cortez Shugart as part of an alleged high speed chase involving Kansas Highway Patrol troopers on the Kansas Turnpike in late April 2023. Dailey is also charged with single counts of flee and elude and speeding. Dailey was allegedly driving at speeds at or above 125 mph before crashing into the back of a semi trailer near the Emporia tollgate.
