Attorneys for former police chief who led Kansas newspaper raid want to drop him as a client

Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody enters the Marion County Courthouse on Oct. 7, 2024, with attorney Sal Intagliata for his first appearance in a low-level felony case. (Photo by Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — The attorneys for former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody have asked the court to withdraw from his criminal case because of a broken relationship between the attorneys and their client. Cody faces a low-level felony charge of interfering with judicial process and is set to go on trial Aug. 24. He led the police raid on the Marion County Record, the newspaper publisher s home, and the home of a city councilwoman in August 2023. Special prosecutors Marc Bennett, of Sedgwick County, and Barry Wilkerson, of Riley County, cleared Cody and other law enforcement officers of wrongdoing in carrying out the raids, even though they were based on a made-up crime and violated both state and federal laws that protect journalists and their sources. The raids spawned five ongoing