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.
Crime
Lady Justice is not only blind — she’s busy, too.
Justice Department prosecutors from Washington have taken over the investigation into allegations of massive fraud within Las Vegas-area homeowners associations. Attorneys with the Criminal Division’s Fraud and Public Integrity Sections have been in Las Vegas for about a month, sources said.
Michelle Paet wanted her husband out of the picture. She had met another man and no longer cared for Nathan Paet, 28, an Air Force staff sergeant with whom she was raising four children.
The State Bar of Nevada continues to monitor a Las Vegas police investigation into attorney Stacey Roundtree, who resigned as a deputy public defender following allegations she engaged in a sex act with an inmate client inside the Clark County Detention Center.
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A Las Vegas high school was placed on soft lockdown and a man was arrested after police discovered a gun in a car stopped in the school’s parking lot.
A pedestrian injured by a hit-and-run motorist earlier this month in North Las Vegas died a week later.
No officers were injured, but few details were available.
Las Vegas police were investigating a homicide in an east valley neighborhood.