The Prosecutor Didn't Prove I Was Over 18, Says Father of 13-Year-Old
Nope, says Kansas Court of Appeals.
Eugene Volokh | 1.5.2026 9:54 AM
From State v. Presley, decided Dec. 26 by the Kansas Court of Appeals (opinion by District Judge Sean Hatfield, joined by Court of Appeals Judges Thomas Malone and Angela Coble):
In The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, quoting Henry David Thoreau, Sherlock Holmes observed that "[c]ircumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk." The days of furtively diluting milk with river water may be behind us, but that turn of phrase is still synonymous........
