The Clark County district attorney’s office must release more information about its practice of paying witnesses in exchange for their testimony, according to the terms of a legal settlement filed Friday in District Court.
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Three alleged MS-13 gang members appeared Wednesday in a Las Vegas courtroom to face charges in the kidnapping and murder of a rival gang member whose body was found mutilated on federal property in Southern Nevada.
Las Vegas jurors awarded nearly $19 million for the family of a hand surgeon killed after being struck and swept under a bus because of a flaw in the aerodynamic design of the vehicle.
Arguments for a new trial for a former Air Force technical sergeant convicted of involuntary manslaughter are speculative, state prosecutors wrote in an opposing motion filed Monday.
Spreading the office’s specialized prosecution team across 10 courtrooms means they will have a harder time providing support to frightened victims who may leave court before testifying, according to spokeswoman Audrie Locke.
A Las Vegas man was arrested last week after authorities accused him of raping a teenage member of his church, police and court records show.
A 67-year-old man was sentenced Friday to about two years in federal prison for illegally selling the horns of an endangered black rhinoceros.
Prosecutors are deciding whether to seek capital punishment for a former Las Vegas police officer charged in a woman’s 1997 shooting death.
Jack William Morgan, 32, was found guilty late last year of kidnapping the woman from her Las Vegas apartment Jan. 30, 2017, then gagging her and chaining her to the floor of his van, officials said.
A Las Vegas woman faces a possible life sentence after jurors found her guilty of imposing years of abuse on her three adopted children.
A disbarred Las Vegas attorney was sentenced Tuesday to between two and five years in prison for scamming people into investing thousands of dollars in a fake medical marijuana company.
A man who ran multimillion-dollar prize promotion scams was sentenced Monday in Las Vegas to about seven years in prison, according to the Department of Justice.
After nearly eight hours of deliberations, a Clark County jury convicted a former Air Force technical sergeant Friday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his wife.
Recently paroled O.J. Simpson ate pancakes with his lawyer Friday morning at a downtown Las Vegaqs cafe near the Regional Justice Center, where he was convicted of robbery more than nine years ago.
Attorneys made their closing arguments Thursday in the trial of an ex-Air Force sergeant charged in the April 2013 shooting death of his wife — a death that North Las Vegas police initially ruled a suicide.