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Thursday, March 11, 1999
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In Brief
Murder prosecution
bill becomes law
CARSON CITY -- Gov. Kenny Guinn on Wednesday signed a bill into law allowing prosecutors to charge someone with murder even if the victim died more than a year and a day after the crime.
The bill takes effect immediately.
The bill was spurred by the shooting of popular Las Vegas race car driver Chris Trickle.
Senate Bill 11 -- sponsored by Sen. Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, and Assemblyman Richard Perkins, D-Henderson -- repealed a Nevada law that prohibited murder charges being brought against a person if the victim of the crime died more than 366 days after it had been committed.
Trickle was shot Feb. 9, 1997, while driving along state Route 160. He lapsed into a coma and died 13 months later.
The person who shot Trickle will never be prosecuted for murder if apprehended, but the change in the law will allow such prosecutions in the future.
City planning chief
resigns for Texas job
Las Vegas Planning Director Theresa O'Donnell has resigned to take a job in her home state of Texas.
O'Donnell has been with the city for 3 1/2 years, two as chief of the department.
She will become the planning director for Arlington, Texas, a city of about 300,000 people near where she was raised. Her last day is March 23.
"It's a plum job. It will be like being the planning director of Summerlin," she said.
O'Donnell said her new job would pay slightly more than her current $98,389-a-year salary.
San Diego man killed
by car on Flamingo
A 38-year-old San Diego man died Tuesday after being struck by a car while crossing Flamingo Road west of Audrie Street.
Michael Wiorek was walking outside the crosswalk when a car traveling east on Flamingo hit him, police said. Wiorek died shortly after arriving at University Medical Center.
The driver, Marian James, 49, of Las Vegas, and her passenger were uninjured. Both were wearing seat belts.
Police said the cause of the accident was pedestrian error, but the investigation was pending.
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