A lawyer for a 24-year-old man accused of dismembering six dogs at two Reno motels said the former Reno High School student has “mental health issues” and might need a psychiatric evaluation before he goes to trial.
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North Las Vegas Councilman Wade Wagner won a legal judgment against the city Tuesday, collecting more than $70,000 in court-awarded legal fees to defray the cost of a three-year legal battle over his disputed 2011 election.
A coalition to fight human trafficking in Nevada is showing signs of strain.
Prison officials say former Nevada developer and political power broker Harvey Whittemore’s health issues will prevent him from serving his two-year sentence at a federal prison closest to Reno as his lawyers requested.
Nevada currently lacks a statute to address competency issues among juveniles. Officials have used adult criminal procedures as a guide instead, said Susan Roske, an attorney with the Clark County juvenile public defender’s office.
If hogtying is being used to restrain juveniles at state-run facilities, the practice needs to stop immediately, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada said Friday.
A man convicted of fatally stabbing former “Little Rascals” actor Jay R. Smith and dumping his body in the desert in 2002 has died in prison.
Concerns about the way juveniles are being restrained at the Nevada Youth Training Center in Elko have prompted a Family Court judge to order the removal of all Clark County juveniles from the facility.
A life prison term was imposed Thursday for a man who killed and dismembered a house guest in Kingman, Ariz., in November 2011.
A Las Vegas father is asking the Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider its recent decision involving his young son’s move to California.