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The wife of indicted defense attorney Brian Bloomfield and a local bail bondsman have been informed they are targets of a grand jury investigating the destruction of evidence in the criminal case against Bloomfield.
The 54-year-old mother of a murder defendant was held in jail for 10 days without bail or a court hearing after she borrowed a juror’s cellphone during the trial.
Dr. Dipak Desai may have been found competent to face criminal charges in the hepatitis C outbreak, but his upcoming March 12 trial is expected to be delayed again.
In the hours preceding a deadly shootout with police on Wednesday, authorities said 23-year-old Jason Baires had snapped: After gruesomely killing his mother’s boyfriend with a machete, he planned to butcher the corpse with a chain saw and dispose of the evidence in the backyard.
School police have confiscated five handguns in four days from high school students and from adults picking up students.
Steps have been taken to prevent any more DMV window clerks from accepting bribes in exchange for issuing driver’s licenses to illegal residents, the Nevada agency’s director said Thursday.
District Judge Kathleen Delaney issued a four-page decision this afternoon finding Dr. Dipak Desai competent to stand trial on criminal charges stemming from the hepatitis C outbreak.
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