U.S. Attorney Jason Frierson became the first African-American man to serve as Nevada’s top federal law enforcement officer in April 2022.
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The family of Rex Patchett, 13, says the reckless driver who killed the boy should have received a harsher sentence. “Rex’s Law” would toughen penalties.
The Review-Journal investigative journalist and the Metropolitan Police Department detectives who investigated his killing were honored Wednesday with proclamations at City Hall.
Former Nevada Department of Corrections Director Charles Daniels gave a statement to news media on Friday morning but refused to take questions.
“The first responsibility of the church in abuse cases is to help those who have been abused and protect those who may be vulnerable to future abuse,” according to the 2010 handbook for Mormon church leaders. But church officials tolerated abuse in at least one family for years.
Ex-Nevada Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, a former Henderson police chief, was arrested on DUI charges in Carson City after the close of the 2021 Legislature.
Oral arguments are expected Wednesday in front of the Supreme Court, where lawyers representing Stavros Anthony and Ross Miller will appear before the justices.
The American Bar Association, the ACLU of Nevada, public defenders and law professors are all urging the Nevada Supreme Court to ban the death penalty for people who suffer from severe mental illness.