The city’s municipal court announced Wednesday that hearings scheduled from Nov. 30 to Dec. 31 will be pushed back five weeks.
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District Court has suspended jury trials until at least Jan. 11 and halted all in-person criminal and civil hearings, according to an order announced Tuesday.
Clark County will halt felony jury trials for the second time this year, less than two months after restarting them under strict pandemic restrictions.
The federal facility has experienced the largest outbreak of any detention center in Nevada, with at least 102 inmates testing positive since the start of the pandemic.
Nevada Southern Detention Center on Tuesday confirmed an employee has died from “potential COVID-19 related issues,” days after news of an inmate death due to the coronavirus.
Clark County District Court’s first jury trial since coronavirus restrictions brought the local legal system to a halt in March is set to begin Monday.
A two-week lockdown triggered by COVID-19 at a state women’s prison in northern Las Vegas was lifted last week following widespread testing of the inmate population.
Five District Court marshals have recently tested positive for coronavirus, according to a memo obtained Friday by the Review-Journal.
As of Tuesday, 152 inmates at the Clark County Detention Center have tested positive for the coronavirus, and 49 of those inmates remain in custody, Las Vegas police said.
A federal prisoner in Nevada has alleged in a civil rights lawsuit that jailers have mishandled a coronavirus outbreak at a facility in Pahrump.