The 18-year-old son of Clark County District Judge Stefany Miley refused medical attention and declined to give a written statement to police after his mother allegedly slapped him in the face, according to a police report.
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Las Vegas defense attorney Alexis Plunkett threatened to have her former boyfriend killed behind bars, prosecutors said in court papers filed Friday urging a judge to revoke her bail.
The Nevada attorney general’s office has made its final argument of the year to the state’s high court in a drawn-out legal battle over prison execution drugs.
The court said James Marlin Cooper, charged in November 2016 with child abuse and battery, should be granted a new trial because the trial judge did not question prosecutors’ dismissal of two black potential jurors.
Las Vegas Judge Jennifer Togliatti, whose career included prosecuting misdemeanors and murders and overseeing some of the most high-profile cases from the bench, is expected to hear her last calendar of cases Friday.
Judge Stefany Miley, who has served on the bench since 2005, faces one count of battery domestic violence under her maiden name stemming from an incident that occurred Saturday, according to Las Vegas municipal court records.
Scott Dozier tried suicide more than 14 years ago. That’s why the Nevada prisoner, who would rather face execution than live on death row, would not make another effort to die by his own hand, he told the Review-Journal on Friday.
Condemned Nevada prisoner Scott Dozier wants to die, but he denies that he attempted to take his own life after his execution was canceled.
A Las Vegas man was convicted Wednesday of orchestrating a pair of jewelry store heists just months after walking away from similar robbery charges because of a legal blunder.
Brian Wright, a man prosecutors said masterminded a pair of jewelry store heists just months after walking free of similar allegations because of legal errors, told jurors Tuesday that an FBI agent had a vendetta against him.
A woman was found hiding in fear in a homeless camp earlier this month, her condition deteriorating after her boyfriend allegedly stabbed her at least 17 times, according to Las Vegas police arrest documents.
Justin Rector, 31, pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree murder in the asphyxiation death of 8-year-old Isabella Grogan-Cannella in September 2014.
Nevada prison officials say they had “no choice” but to place condemned inmate Scott Dozier in isolation after his second canceled execution.
A jury acquitted a pair of former Nevada Department of Corrections officers of felony charges Friday after a weeklong trial.
Murder charges were dropped less than a week after a man was arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 38-year-old after lawyers determined he acted in self-defense.