More than a year ago, prosecution mistakes allowed Brian Wright to beat charges of robbing three jewelry stores and walk out of court a free man. Now he’s back in custody accused of another robbery.
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Three years and two dozen motions later, a federal court in Las Vegas will hear a federal lawsuit Monday that seeks to block the Southern Nevada Water Authority from siphoning groundwater from a 300-mile swath of eastern Nevada.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a second-degree murder conviction against the Las Vegas doctor imprisoned under 27 criminal counts related to the city’s 2007 hepatitis C outbreak.
The unpublished opinion, dated Tuesday, upheld a lower court ruling rejecting a challenge to the state’s medical marijuana program.
The lawyers waited in courtroom 6A for over an hour, speculating as to Bing Han’s whereabouts. Han, who was acquitted in a case involving a marijuana grow operation, didn’t answer repeated phone calls from his attorney, Gabriel Grasso.
O.J. Simpson’s story represents one of the most dramatic falls from grace in the history of American pop culture. Here’s a timeline of major events in the life of Simpson, now 70, who is up for parole on Thursday.
After nearly nine years in a rural Nevada prison, a state board could vote this week to grant parole to one of its most infamous inmates: O.J. Simpson.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys gave opening statements Monday in the retrial against four Bunkerville standoff defendants.
Opening statements are scheduled for Monday in the retrial against four Bunkerville standoff defendants who are accused of joining rancher Cliven Bundy’s armed stand against the federal government.
Hundreds of supporters turned out at a Las Vegas event Saturday night supporting the defendants facing trial in the Bunkerville standoff case.
A psychologist accused of killing his wife and staging her death as a suicide can start practicing medicine again in less than four months, the Nevada Board of Psychological Examiners decided Friday.
Steve Wolfson, the top prosecutor in Clark County, suggested Thursday that O.J. Simpson should be granted parole from Nevada prison next week.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a brief reference to the ongoing Bunkerville standoff trial Wednesday when he offered praise to the lead prosecutor, but he declined to take a side in the case that his Justice Department is prosecuting.
A federal judge dealt a blow to defense lawyers in the Bunkerville standoff case Monday with an early-morning ruling that obliterates the strategy they used in the first trial this year.
Another trial in the Bunkerville standoff case opens Monday in Las Vegas.
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