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Stephen Schneider won't win his freedom without an argument.

Federal prosecutor Tanya Treadway has asked a judge to modify the conditions for the former doctor's bond, set for a hearing at 2 p.m. today in Wichita.

Schneider, 54, is charged with his wife in a 34-count indictment accusing them of writing illegal prescriptions for painkillers to the patients at their Haysville clinic.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Don Bostwick ruled Monday that Schneider should be released under 15 conditions, including that he not practice medicine or be involved in his clinic.

The judge allowed the prosecution and defense to file objections until Wednesday.

A woman accused of the hit-and-run deaths of two highway workers near Lawrence has been convicted of leading police on a chase after the men were struck.

An Osage County District Court jury on Tuesday found Ramona I. Morgan, 48, of Chewelah, Wash., guilty of felony fleeing, reckless driving, failure to use a turn signal and failure to maintain a single lane. She was acquitted of two speeding counts.

Morgan, who remains in the Osage County Jail on $100,000 bond, will be sentenced May 20.

Morgan's attorney, Billy Rork, told Judge Phillip Fromme that he would seek a new trial.

Osage County Attorney Brandon Jones said he was happy with the jury's decision, despite the verdicts on the speeding charges.

Alexander, Andrew L. and Taylor Sonya D., both of Wichita.

Basinger, Joel L. and Palmer, Lorna G., both of Haysville.

Belgard, Thomas J. and Bakken, Angela R., both of Rose Hill.

Bell, Jerry D. and Murrell, Shawntel E., both of Wichita.

Bender, Joshua M., Wichita, and Frid, Camilla H., Katrineholm, Sweden.

Jodi Sanderholm's parents didn't mind leaving the Cowley County Courthouse on Wednesday not knowing when the trial would begin for the man accused of killing their daughter.

Cowley County District Judge Jim Pringle said the capital murder trial of Justin Thurber wouldn't begin this summer, to allow lawyers more time to prepare.

Cindy and Brian Sanderholm said they'd already waited 15 months, so they didn't mind waiting longer. But they don't want to see any mistakes that would taint Thurber's trial.

"Our worst nightmare would be if we'd have to go through this all again," Brian Sanderholm said.

The site of the trial still remains in doubt. Pringle is pondering whether to move the case out of the county where the 19-year-old's brutal death in January 2007 shook the community -- so much so, lawyers say, that it has polarized opinions and poisoned Thurber's chances of a fair trial.

This story contained an incorrect reference to Federal Judge Monti Belot's title. He is a U.S. District judge.

The name on the federal indictment in Wichita is "John Doe."

But the Orthodox Jewish community where he lived for at least the past three years knew him as Nathaniel James Levi. Netan, for short.

His real name: Ted Riley Floyd, 29. He's charged with putting false information on a passport application while he lived in Wichita. He is now in the Sedgwick County Jail.

The news of Floyd assuming the identity of a dead man, however, has caused an uproar in the Hasidic community of Lakewood, N.J., where he lived with his wife and four children. The story quickly spread through the Yiddish press to similar communities throughout Brooklyn and other parts of New York state.

The courts exist to protect individual rights, not to solve society's problems, says legal historian Jonathan Adler.

The law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, represents one side of a debate in the legal community about where to draw the line in protecting constitutional rights.

Adler will present his views in a public lecture Thursday in Wichita, sponsored by the Bill of Rights Institute, funded by the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation.

While some might view Adler's position as politically conservative, he said he wants to see politics removed from the courts.

"I think there's a concern about what happens if courts become an instrument of broader policy or broader political movement," Adler said Tuesday in a phone interview.

Sedgwick County Sheriff Gary Steed unexpectedly dropped his plans to seek re-election Wednesday, throwing open the race for the county's top law enforcement job.

Republican and Democratic party officials expressed surprise at the announcement and said they were confident their candidates would run strong races in November.

Steed, a Republican, said in February that he was planning to seek a third term, and he later filed for re-election. In a written statement released late Wednesday, he said he changed his mind, but provided little about why.

"Following deep reflection and with a gratified spirit, I have chosen not to seek election to a third term as Sedgwick County sheriff," he said. "I have determined that for me to meet personal goals and professional objectives, it is necessary to withdraw from the 2008 election."

Steed, a Wichita State University graduate with 34 years of law enforcement experience, said he planned to meet with the media this morning to discuss his decision.

Since announcing her engagement to Henry Hager in January, first daughter Jenna Bush has been relatively quiet about her May 10 wedding at the family's Crawford ranch.

But for the May issue of Vogue, the 26-year-old author and teacher discusses her engagement and reveals a few nuptial details to contributing editor Julia Reed, who also interviewed Laura Bush and Hager for the article.

Oscar de la Renta will design the wedding dress. As Jenna Bush describes it to Reed, it is "a 'very structured' organza... gown, with embroidery and a bit of matte beading, that is 'simple and elegant' with a bit of a train but somehow still casual."

Here are some other highlights from the article:

• Hager, the son of Virginia Republican Party Chairman John H. Hager and a former aide to Karl Rove, asked Jenna Bush to marry him in August after an early-morning hike to the top of Cadillac Mountain in Maine.