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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Friday, Jan. 17, 1986
Former student's condition is satisfactory.father says
By Monique O'Donnell Staff writer
Staff writer
A lawyer and former KU student who was shot by a client's husband in an Aurora, Colo., courtroom is in stable condition, her father said yesterday.
Jeanne Elliott, the former KU student, was shot in the leg, chest and face on Tuesday.
While Elliott was rushed to a hospital where she underwent almost six hours of surgery. Gerald Lee Utsesch, an Aurora police officer, was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault.
Elliott was representing Utsesch's wife during the couple's divorce.
Glen Elliott, the victim's father, said his daughter still was in the intensive care unit at Aurora Presbyterian Hospital but appeared to be a little better.
"She's kind of in a stable condition," he said. "Our hopes are pretty high. She was conscious this morning, and she talked to us a little."
Helen Reasoner, the nursing supervisor at hospital, said Elliot was in serious condition. Doctors had not yet determined whether the patient was shot thre times or four times
Lt. Michael Stiers, at the Aurora police station, said that he had worked with Utesch and couldn't understand why the shooting occurred.
"The divorce had been going on for over a year," Stiers said. "We did not have any indication he would do something like this."
But Elliott's father said his daughter had mentioned that Utschad had threaten her on several occasions.
Elliott graduated from KU's School of Journalism in 1973 and from Washburn University in Topeka in 1980.
Elliott started working for a law firm in Kansas City, Kan., in 1980 and specialized in media work while working there. In 1981, she began working for a legal aid office in Hays for one year
Before she opened her private practice in Denver in 1984 she spent
another year working for legal aid in Pueblo. Colo.
Dorothy Bowles, professor of journalism, said she knew the family well because the parents used to live in Lawrence. Elliott's mother also belonged to the Lawrence Women's Press Club, of which Bowles also was a member.
Bowles said Elliott was a very social-minded person.
"One of the reasons she attended law school was because she wanted to help people," she said. "And you can see that by the kind of work she did. Legal aid is one of the lowest paying among the legal profession."
Bowles said that Elliott represented two reporters from the Kansan in a civil court case in 1980. The two reporters had been subpoenaed to release confidential sources of a story the Kansan had published.
- Bowles said she had asked Elliott to defend the two student reporters, who could not afford to hire an attorney.
Ellott was working in Kansas City, Kan., at the time.
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