Cristopher Martinez took the witness stand Thursday during the death penalty trial of Bryan Clay, who is accused of raping and killing his mother, Ignacia “Yadira” Martinez, 38, and 10-year-old sister, Karla.
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According to complaints filed Wednesday in Clark County District Court, 14 more people are seeking damages from the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the convictions and death sentences for Donte Johnson in connection with a 1988 quadruple homicide in Las Vegas.
John Valerio was just 22 when he was first convicted of murder and placed on death row in 1988 for fatally stabbing a 26-year-old Las Vegas woman. But in 2002, after more than a dozen years of imprisonment, an error prompted a federal appeals court to overturn Valerio’s sentence while upholding his conviction.
A Las Vegas jury sentenced a 62-year-old man to death Wednesday for ordering his sixth wife dead and then killing the hit man.
In an effort to accelerate the sometimes-slow wheels of justice, a team of four Clark County judges will oversee almost all murder cases starting this week.
DeMarlo Berry was released from state custody around 6 a.m. Friday after spending 22 years in prison for murder. Another man has confessed to the crime.
After awaiting trial for almost nine years, a reputed drug dealer was convicted Wednesday of convincing a handyman to kill his sixth wife before fatally shooting the hit man inside the couple’s northwest valley home.
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.
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.
On deciding Javier Righetti’s punishment for the rape and murder of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba, a prosecutor on Tuesday urged jurors to look no further than the defendant’s own words.
Javier Righetti was convicted of first-degree murder Thursday in the 2011 stabbing death of a 15-year-old Las Vegas girl, and prosecutors plan to seek capital punishment.
After two homeless men were killed in similar incidents earlier this year, Las Vegas police said they were forced to look beyond traditional investigative techniques to find a suspect.
A mannequin, covered with blankets and positioned to resemble a homeless person sleeping on the sidewalk, was attacked with a hammer near downtown Las Vegas.
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