WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the convictions of a Wichita man who offered a friend cash and drugs to kill the pregnant 14-year-old girl who was carrying his child.
The court ruled Friday that Elgin Ray Robinson is not entitled to a new trial or sentencing in the death of Chelsea Brooks. She was nine months pregnant at the time. Brooks disappeared on June 9, 2006. Her body was found six days later.
Robinson was convicted of capital murder and other charges.
The Supreme Court rejected defense arguments that the trial court should have suppressed evidence of Robinson’s statements to police and of computer searches he conducted before the murder. Robinson also challenged the introduction of photographs of the girl’s body as it was uncovered from a shallow grave.
