Public defenders have argued Sigal Chattah’s term expired in July and she has since been doing her job without “force or effect.”
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A man was found guilty on two counts of second-degree murder in Clark County District Court stemming from a 2017 incident that also left three individuals hospitalized.
She was about two months pregnant with her and her boyfriend child, the boyfriend said this week.
In a final police report released Thursday, authorities said they had no evidence Joe Houston told anyone he planned to shoot and kill his former daughter-in-law and her new husband.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who police believe was stabbed on a bus in the northeast valley.
Kim Lewis-McClellan knew something was wrong with her 7-year-old son when he came to spend Christmas 2007 with her in Illinois. The boy, who had been living with his father in Las Vegas, complained of stomachaches and exhibited asthmatic symptoms.
A man died early Saturday morning after fleeing from police who used a Taser on him several times, Las Vegas police said. The name of the man was not released by authorities.
Las Vegas valley law enforcement is trying to cope with a rising number of random, violent street attacks by thrill-seeking youth who seem to lack any compassion for their victims.
As head of the federal public defender’s office in Nevada, Franny Forsman has spent her career passionately opposing capital punishment and advocating for those on death row.
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His father previously admitted that he helped his son move Lesly Palacio’s body. Authorities have said both men then fled to Mexico.
The Metropolitan Police Department held a briefing Wednesday about “the current and future use” of drones to fight crime in the Las Vegas Valley.
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.
