KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Attorneys representing a former Kansas police chief charged in connection with the 2023 raid of the Marion County Record want off the case.
Following the raid and subsequent investigation, then-Marion, Kansas, Police Chief Gideon Cody was charged in 2024 with felony interference of a judicial process.
LINK | Full coverage of the newspaper raid
The court case has meandered through the Kansas court systems in the years since, but was set to go to a jury trial in February.
A judge later pushed back the start of the trial to August.
In a letter dated July 29, Cody’s attorneys — Sal Intagliata and Audra Asher of Wichita-based law firm Triad Legal — filed a motion in Marion County District Court to withdraw from the case.
LINK | Read the letter
The attorneys cited a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship and attorney-client communications. The attorney cited a rule that allows an attorney to withdraw when a client “insists upon pursuing an objective that the lawyer considers repugnant or imprudent.”
The attorneys said in the motion they are ready to “supplement/augment” their motion if Cody files a response.
It was not immediately clear how the attorneys request to withdraw would impact the August trial date.
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