Prosecutors could seek the death penalty against a 47-year-old woman accused of killing three roommates six months after another murder case against her was dismissed.
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The Clark County district attorney’s office on Tuesday released a timeline detailing its decision to throw out a murder case against Christine Sanchez — the same woman now accused of killing her three roommates.
Markings on a bullet fragment did not contain enough evidence to support murder charges against two suspects in the case, a judge ruled this week.
District Judge Stefany Miley granted Kirstin Lobato’s request a new trial after finding that ineffective assistance of counsel may have played a role in the woman’s 2006 conviction of killing a homeless man and cutting off his penis.
Search warrant records obtained Tuesday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal offer a peek into the massive investigation that ensued in the first few hours and days after the Oct. 1 massacre.
The family of a woman killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival massacre is asking for $45 million from the estate of gunman Stephen Paddock, and a Las Vegas judge could decide this week how his assets are managed.
A week after a judge threw out a murder charge against a Las Vegas teenager, a grand jury indicted the defendant in the slaying of a woman who was killed during a purported drug deal in the northwest valley.
Condemned killer Scott Dozier, urging his own execution, was back in front of a judge on Tuesday for the first time since he was supposed to die.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced life in prison Tuesday for the April 2012 beating deaths of a mother and her young daughter. Prosecutors wanted capital punishment.
Bryan Clay, convicted of raping and murdering a mother and her young daughter in 2012, took the witness stand Monday morning with a statement, ready to ask jurors to spare his life.
As the tears dripped down her face, the mother of a convicted murderer looked toward jurors Friday and begged them to spare her son’s.
