4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
CRIME
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 2006
Terrv Herbid/THE DISPATCH
Tony Reynolds, center, leaves the Lee County Courthouse on Wednesday with his wife, Joanne, and brother-in-law, Mike McCollum, after a jury found 17-year-old Sarah Kolb guilty of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the death of Reynolds' daughter, Adriane Reynolds, in Dixon, Ill.
Girl convicted for killing peer
DIXON, Ill. — A teenage girl was convicted Wednesday in the killing of a 16-year-old classmate who was choked, beaten and sawed into pieces after an argument over boys.
BY JAN DENNIS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sarah Kolb, 17, faces up to 60 years in prison.
The victim, Adrianne Reynolds, had just moved to East Moline from Texas about two months before she was killed. Prosecutors said she was just trying to fit in at a new school but picked the wrong friend.
On Jan. 21, 2005, Kolb, Reynolds and schoolmate Cory Gregory were in Kolb's car at a fast-food restaurant when the fight began. Reynolds was killed and her body was burned, dismembered and hidden in two counties.
Gregory also is charged with murder and concealing a homicide and is scheduled to stand
trial May 1
Kolb showed no reaction as the verdict was read. Her family and Reynolds' family wept quietly as the injury was polled.
The trial was.Kolb's second in three months. The first ended in a mistrial in November when a Rock Island County jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of conviction. Her retrial was moved to Dixon, about 60 miles from the Ouad Cities.
Later, step-uncle Michael McCollum said Reynolds' family was "overjoyed. It's been a very long road."
Kolb's family declined to comment as they left the courthouse.
In the retrial, Rock Island County State's Attorney Jeff Teronez said Kolb wrote in a class journal that she was going to kill Reynolds just hours before Reynolds was beaten and strangled in the car.
shown interest in Kolb's boyfriend and Gregory, her ex-boyfriend.
Defense attorney David Hoffman told jurors it was Gregory who killed Reynolds. But prosecutors said Koib was still accountable because she choked and beat Reynolds before Gregory "finished her off."
Terronez said Kolb was angry because Reynolds had
Prosecutors say the two took the girl's body to Kolb's grandparents' farm and burned it, then returned two days later, sawed the body into pieces and dumped the remains on the farm and in Black Hawk State Park in Rock Island.
In her first trial, Kolb testified that Gregory strangled Reynolds, then hit Kolb and threatened to kill her, her family and her cats if she reported the crime. Gregory, who has pleaded not guilty, denied that account in a television interview.
Kolb did not testify in her second trial, and the defense rested without presenting a case.
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"It was racial profiling without a doubt," he said. "They were picking and choosing who to ask for KUIDs."
Michelle Smith is a specialist for the city of Lawrence human relations department, which is a civil rights enforcement agency. She said that asking for a KUID has to be consistent.
"If they aren't consistently doing this, they could be potentially singling out a protected class," she said. "If everyone across the board is being asked, then that's their pre-operative and their practice."
Abe and Jake's requires everyone who enters to have a KUID on particular college nights. Logan said someone who doesn't have a KUID won't be admitted, regardless of race.
"KU students come in all different races, and you can be whatever race to be let in," he said. "We spend our advertising dollars targeting towards college students and that's our target audience. That's who we want in here."
To be let into a bar, a driver's license or another form of ID that shows the person's date of birth has to be shown before entry, said Brandon Jones, assistant district attorney for Douglas County. If a bar
wants extra forms, and the person cannot provide that, Jones said that under law, the bar doesn't have to let the person in. He said a college night is acceptable if it is a promotional deal in which students get in for a cheaper price than non-students.
Richard Levy, KU professor of law, speculated on why a bar might ask for KUIDs. He said that a bar might be trying to keep out "undesirables."
"There are laws prohibiting discrimination on race, and if a person feels he was discriminated against because of race, he would need to come into court and show it was a violation." Lew said.
Some people don't have a problem getting into local bars and nightclubs.
Leslie Schmille, a Lawrence junior who is white, was at Abe and Jake's two Saturdays ago and saw posted signs before the walkway stating that everyone must have a KUID. She was worried because she didn't have her KUID, and she was also with one friend who attends Johnson County Community College and one friend who isn't in college, both white.
"While we were waiting in line to go in, we asked one of the workers if we needed one, and he said no," she said. "When we got up to the front, they didn't ask any of us
for one.'
Issac Akande, a Wichita sophomore who is black, didn't have to show his KUID either that same night.
"They didn't ask me for my KUID, I just showed them my license," he said. "They didn't ask any of my friends either."
Tyler Torneden, door manager at Abe and Jake's, said the bar was not always strict on asking for KUIDs.
When Schmille saw the KUID signs at Abe and Jake's, she figured they were related to the Feb. 5 shooting outside of the Granada, in which a man shot and killed one man and injured another, police said. All three men are believed to be from out of town.
Logan said there was no connection to the shooting, and that asking for KUIDs was something the nightclub had done for years.
"Many establishments have college nights, and it's as simple as that," he said. "We want to make sure we keep our core customer base, and that's the college students."
No changes have been made at The Hawk in response to the shooting, according to Heleniak, James Savage, door manager at Quirinton's Bar and Deli, 615 Massachusetts St., and Cravens said the same.
— Edited by Meghan Miller
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Jason Boots, Plano, Texas, senior and presidential candidate for Ignite, said he approached Gay earlier in the semester about the possibility of her running with his coalition. Boots said that during their conversations Gay seemed interested in learning more, which is was her name was placed on the coalition's listserver. He said that when the Web site was being built they used a program that automatically listed all the names on that listserver as the group's supporters.
"We apologize to Gina and her organizations for the miscommunication and wish to congratulate the organizations she is involved with," Boots said. "Gina is a hard, loyal worker, and any organization that has her support should be thankful."
Gay said when she was approached by the Ignite coalition she told them they could send her an e-mail with more information but that she never gave any verbal commitment. She said she never went to any of its meetings or showed any serious interest in leaving Delta Force.
Bridget Franklin, Topeka senior and vice presidential candidate for Delta Force, said she was sad to see the campaign off to such a "nasty" start. She said this issue wasn't about Ignite being "bad" but more about its miscommunication.
"I don't think it's going to hurt them," Franklin said. "I just hope they realize that with a violation happening so soon they need to be more responsible and run a more careful campaign."
Steele said he hadn't had a chance to look at the complaint yet because the commission was still finishing up the process of hiring its new commissioner. He did say, however, that he was taken by surprise that there was a reported violation so early in the campaign.
— Edited by Timon Veach
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