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.
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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.
Nine people met Friday’s deadline to apply for a vacancy on the Nevada Court of Appeals.
Rancher Cliven Bundy, cleared of federal charges this year, refiled a lawsuit against Nevada and Clark County governments.
While Nevada has struggled to execute a condemned killer who volunteered for his sentence to be carried out and as other parts of the country move away from capital punishment, Clark County jurors handed down the second most death sentences in the United States last year.
A drug manufacturer filed suit Tuesday in an effort to stop this week’s execution of convicted murderer Scott Dozier.
A manual details the moments leading up to Nevada’s first execution in 12 years. If it goes according to plan, Scott Dozier will be dead by 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Scott Dozier’s case spent two years working through the court system, including a ruling from the Nevada Supreme Court, after he waived his appeals. Now the state is ready to kill him.
A man who sexually assaulted and killed a 7-year-old girl more than two decades ago was back in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday.
Federal prosecutors asked a judge to reconsider her decision to dismiss charges against rancher Cliven Bundy and others, while dropping an indictment against four defendants who have yet to face a jury, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
Lifelong Southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, recently cleared of federal charges and freed from jail after nearly two years, has turned his sights on state and county government.
The government spent more than three years bringing Cliven Bundy to trial in the aftermath of the April 2014 armed standoff near Bunkerville.
A day after his criminal case was dismissed, Cliven Bundy talked about returning to his roots.
A federal judge dismissed all charges Monday against Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and another man.
Dayle Elieson, who took over Friday as interim United States attorney in Nevada, is essentially unknown in the state, and Las Vegas attorneys are perplexed by the choice.