Judge James Wilson said that the board did not give the proper amount of notice to victims’ families prior to the meeting, although he allowed that the board did have the power to commute death sentences.
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Katelyn Newberg joined the Review-Journal's investigative team in February 2025. Following two internships, she joined the newspaper staff in 2018 as a breaking news reporter and began covering courts and legal affairs in October 2021. She is a native of central Florida and a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.
Nearly three years after the deadliest residential fire in Las Vegas history, a complex lawsuit involving dozens of plaintiffs could be nearing a resolution.
The Washoe County district attorney’s office moved Friday to stop the Nevada Board of Pardons from commuting the death sentences of all 57 prisoners on death row.
A change in the court calendar approved by the Clark County Commission takes effect in January.
Officials said a member of an international criminal enterprise was sentenced in Las Vegas to more than three years in prison for his role in a bank fraud scheme.
Criminal proceedings for the former UNLV basketball recruit had been on hold while attorneys waited on a Nevada Supreme Court ruling.
A 23-year-old woman was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole on Wednesday for killing a 5-year-old boy she was babysitting.
A former Nevada U.S attorney previously convicted of failing to pay taxes was again accused of failing to pay taxes in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Jonathan Risse-Santos pleaded guilty in February to charges of attempted receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Rashawn Gaston-Anderson was sentenced on Monday to at least seven years in prison for shooting a waiter multiple times during an attempted robbery nearly a year ago.
A Tennessee man arrested in Las Vegas following the January 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than five years in prison.
Former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore has applied to fill a vacant seat in Pahrump Justice Court.
A former employee of the Nevada Supreme Court alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was fired from her job because of a mental illness disability.
A Las Vegas judge ordered a mental health evaluation on Tuesday for a man accused of shooting an employee outside a McDonald’s on the Strip.
A man indicted on a solicitation to commit murder charge is accused of attempting to hire an inmate at the Clark County Detention Center to kill a local race car driver.