Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melanie Tobiasson has agreed to resign, rather than face ethics charges from a state disciplinary board.
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“It wasn’t his nature that created the Pat McKenna that spent all that time in prison,” said brother Ken, a former Nevada lawyer. “It was the nurture part of his life.”
Prosecutors deny they have a conflict of interest in their efforts to execute Zane Floyd for killing four people inside a Las Vegas grocery store.
A judge ordered Christopher McDonnell, 29, to be sent to a maximum-security psychiatric facility until doctors deem him fit to stand trial, records show.
A judge on Monday denied bail for a 25-year-old man charged with shooting two people on the Strip, killing one.
Lawyers for the Las Vegas basketball standout have asked a judge to throw out his DUI and reckless driving charges in connection with a crash that killed a man.
Jordan Barson, 45, pleaded guilty to two counts of DUI resulting in death and is scheduled to be sentenced in June.
Zane Floyd, now 45, received a death sentence for fatally shooting four people and gravely wounding another inside a Las Vegas supermarket in 1999.
Lawyers representing death row inmate Zane Floyd, who is facing imminent lethal injection, want the Clark County district attorney’s office removed from his case.
Prosecutors formally requested an execution warrant on Wednesday for Zane Floyd, who killed four people inside a Las Vegas Albertsons nearly 22 years ago.
A 43-year-old man was sentenced to prison Tuesday for shooting at Las Vegas police officers.
A man charged in what Las Vegas police called a “prostitution-related” killing was ordered held without bail Tuesday.
A California attorney wants an appeals court to reconsider her request to throw out a Steve Wynn defamation lawsuit.
An appellate court has sided with Steve Wynn in his defamation lawsuit against attorney Lisa Bloom and her law firm in a legal battle over a press release about allegations against the former casino mogul.