District Judge William Kephart has been accused of violating professional ethics codes by giving an on-camera interview last year about a case that was pending before the Nevada Supreme Court.
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A judge set bail at $2.5 million on Wednesday for Ross Strauss, 64, who faces a murder charge in the death of his special-needs son.
Jemar Matthews was found guilty of 12 counts, and sentenced to life in prison. His quest to overturn his conviction was unsuccessful for years — until this March, when a federal judge ruled that a prosecutor’s “plainly improper” comments ripped him of his fair trial rights and resulted in a wrongful conviction.
Shaun Leflore was acquitted Thursday of a first-degree murder charge in the 2006 death of his girlfriend. The shooting death was initially ruled a suicide.
Police surveillance video released Wednesday shows a 30-year-old man pacing around a downtown street corner in the dark of night for nearly 14 minutes before whacking the head of a mannequin with a hammer.
Roland Bueno Cardenas, 55, of Las Vegas is accused of killing Gary Breitling, 57, of Sidney, Montana, on March 25 while getting off the tour bus in front of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
A judge set bail at $350,000 Friday for a 27-year-old man charged with murder in the punch-and-fall death of a father of five outside the Vanguard Lounge in downtown Las Vegas.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Monday upheld a jury’s murder conviction that a lower court judge had overturned.
Opening arguments began Thursday in trial of Shaun Leflore, who is accused of murder in his girlfriend’s 2006 death, originally ruled a suicide.
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