The case became a rallying cry for animal rights advocates and led to a new Nevada animal cruelty law.
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Prosecutors say the defendant was also speeding when he struck the car containing the man and his pregnant girlfriend.
Prosecutors had asked that Rainier Jefferson, 37, be found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Mallery Armijo.
District Attorney Steve Wolfson said the case may be the first of its kind for his office. State law appears to be silent on the issue, he said.
“The things that happened should never happen to a child,” one victim told the judge before Derland Blake, 41, was sentenced to probation and 728 days in jail.
The defendant is an inmate in the Arizona prison system, where she is serving another sentence for Medicaid fraud, her attorney said previously.
A Clark County woman said she was shot by a restaurant security officer in 2024, resulting in “serious bodily injuries,” according to a recently filed lawsuit.
Six Republicans are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state.
Elias Ghanem II, 38, pleaded guilty to a wire fraud charge in February. He solicited investments in a purported cannabis and restaurants businesses, officials said.
The city says cases against the protesters have “resulted in a meaningful consequence,” but lawyers involved in the cases are critical of the way police handled protests.
A repeat DUI offender was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed an Air Force veteran.
An attorney says a store clerk was outnumbered by drug users armed with knives and a gun, one of whom threatened him and pelted him with racial slurs.
The car hit her in the back, then ran over her legs, she told a judge. She recalled blood gushing from her.
Family Judge Dee Butler told a packed courtroom on Wednesday that she had not yet heard a “satisfying” plan for the teen.
Erick Rangel-Ibarra, who was brought to Las Vegas last week to face an arrest warrant, appeared before a district judge.