Jurors took about two hours to convict 48-year-old Melvyn Sprowson on four counts of unlawful use of a minor in the production of pornography, as well as one count each of first-degree kidnapping and child abuse or neglect.
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Defendant Melvyn Sprowson spoke to jurors for a final time Thursday as he delivered an animated closing argument in his kidnapping and child porn trial. Jurors will begin deliberations in the case Friday.
Melvyn Sprowson took the stand Wednesday in his kidnapping and child porn trial. Acting as his own defense, he said he kept a 16-year-old girl in his apartment for about two months because he was afraid she would kill herself if he took her home.
Melvyn Sprowson, representing himself at trial, faces the possibility of life in prison on four counts of unlawful use of a minor in the production of pornography, and one count each of first-degree kidnapping and child abuse or neglect.
Jury selection began Tuesday in the case of a former Las Vegas kindergarten teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
On deciding Javier Righetti’s punishment for the rape and murder of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba, a prosecutor on Tuesday urged jurors to look no further than the defendant’s own words.
A month before he killed 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba in northwest Las Vegas, Mexican police issued an arrest warrant for Javier Righetti in connection with the rape of his cousin.
Former mixed martial arts fighter War Machine shook his head Monday as a Las Vegas jury convicted him of more than two dozen charges for a vicious attack on his one-time girlfriend and another man.
A felon who hit a legal jackpot last year has flushed away his good fortune and landed himself back in prison, 10 months after a case-sinking error by federal prosecutors allowed him to walk free on a string of armed robbery charges.
Javier Righetti was convicted of first-degree murder Thursday in the 2011 stabbing death of a 15-year-old Las Vegas girl, and prosecutors plan to seek capital punishment.
War Machine intended to kill Christine Mackinday and Corey Thomas when he broke into his then-girlfriend’s home in August 2014, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday during closing arguments in the former mixed martial arts fighter’s trial.
War Machine, the former mixed martial arts fighter on trial for an attack on his then-girlfriend and a man, suffers from brain abnormalities that could cause animalistic behavior, a doctor testified.
Herman “The Hitman” Terrado often trained with the now-banished mixed martial arts fighter known as War Machine and testified Tuesday as a defense witness in the man’s sexual assault and attempted murder trial.
Erin Mackinday, mother of victim Christine Mackinday, spent 45 minutes on the witness stand Monday as one of the prosecution’s final witnesses in War Machine’s sexual assault and attempted murder trial.
Two men appeared in Las Vegas Justice Court on Monday morning to face charges of sexual assault of a 14-year-old special education student.
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