Lawyers for a 27-year-old man accused of raping and killing a woman and her 10-year-old daughter told jurors Tuesday that he should be acquitted, criticizing the value of forensic evidence against him.
Courts
A day after the resignation of Nevada’s medical examiner who concocted a three-drug cocktail for an execution slated next month, a Las Vegas judge ordered testimony from another doctor about the state’s proposed method of lethal injection.
Opening statements are slated to start Tuesday afternoon in the death penalty trial of a man charged with raping and killing a 10-year-old Las Vegas girl and her mother in 2012.
Jury selection begins Monday in Las Vegas for rancher Cliven Bundy, his two sons Ryan and Ammon and independent militia leader Ryan Payne.
Former Las Vegas strip club magnate Rick Rizzolo must return to federal prison for two years and pay more than $2.6 million in taxes that he evaded, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Two Idaho men involved in the Bunkerville standoff case accepted plea deals Monday and likely will avoid further jail time.
A Clark County judge granted a temporary restraining order to prevent MGM Resorts International from destroying any evidence related to the massacre at the Route 91 Harvest music festival.
A Southern Nevada law firm withdrew a court petition Thursday to manage distribution of the funds from the estate of mass shooter Stephen Paddock.
A Las Vegas law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against a bump stock manufacturer on behalf of the victims of the Harvest 91 country music festival.
Psychologist Gregory Brent Dennis accused of killing his attorney wife and staging her death as a suicide was indicted on a murder charge Thursday.
Recently paroled O.J. Simpson was spotted at Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon.
Six co-defendants paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to director of Nevada housing nonprofit in exchange for him steering distressed properties to them, according to 14-count indictment unsealed in this week in federal court.
A Las Vegas woman serving 18 to 48 years in prison for killing six teenagers in a car crash in 2000 could be close to release following a ruling issued Thursday by the Nevada Supreme Court.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the convictions and death sentences for Donte Johnson in connection with a 1988 quadruple homicide in Las Vegas.
In the wake of Sunday night’s massacre in Las Vegas, a defendant has asked to postpone next week’s trial for for seven Bunkerville ranch standoff defendants.
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