The opinion from the Nevada Supreme Court stems from a lawsuit filed by a woman who claimed she was subject to a “demeaning and humiliating” strip search while visiting a Nevada prison.
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The Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to hold an investigator in contempt of court for refusing to testify in a preliminary hearing more than two years ago about the Alpine Motel Apartments fire.
Two New Mexico tourists were killed in the crash on Wednesday evening near the Fremont Street Experience.
Prosecutors on Wednesday dismissed charges against a woman arrested in 2019 in connection with her 2-month-old son’s death.
A woman accused of a crash that killed her two nieces appeared in North Las Vegas Justice Court. The mother of the girls remains hospitalized.
The Washoe County district attorney’s office moved Friday to stop the Nevada Board of Pardons from commuting the death sentences of all 57 prisoners on death row.
A change in the court calendar approved by the Clark County Commission takes effect in January.
Officials said a member of an international criminal enterprise was sentenced in Las Vegas to more than three years in prison for his role in a bank fraud scheme.
Criminal proceedings for the former UNLV basketball recruit had been on hold while attorneys waited on a Nevada Supreme Court ruling.
A 23-year-old woman was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole on Wednesday for killing a 5-year-old boy she was babysitting.
A former Nevada U.S attorney previously convicted of failing to pay taxes was again accused of failing to pay taxes in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Jonathan Risse-Santos pleaded guilty in February to charges of attempted receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Rashawn Gaston-Anderson was sentenced on Monday to at least seven years in prison for shooting a waiter multiple times during an attempted robbery nearly a year ago.
A Tennessee man arrested in Las Vegas following the January 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than five years in prison.
Former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore has applied to fill a vacant seat in Pahrump Justice Court.