For nearly six years, Cynthia Sanchez has visited her son at the Clark County Detention Center, and for most of that time, he faced possibility of being sent to death row for a double homicide.
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David Ferrara covers courts and legal affairs. He joined the newspaper in 2014 after more than six years reporting in the Deep South, where he wrote extensively about the BP oil spill. Prior to that, he worked for newspapers, magazines and a wire service in Chicago. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Jemar Matthews, who spent nearly a dozen years of a life sentence behind bars after being convicted in the killing, also had no connection to the shooting, his defense attorneys argued at his new trial.
A 25-year-old Las Vegas woman is expected to plead guilty this week to charges of second-degree murder and driving under the influence for a crash that killed an 8-year-old boy.
Maurice Sims faced the death penalty for five years in connection with a double homicide , and after a jury’s verdict this week he could soon walk free.
The construction crew that built the stage and escape route for Copperfield’s “Lucky #13” illusion offered to settle the lawsuit for $450,000 about a month before the trial started in April, according to a judge’s ruling.
A 39-year-old woman with a history of DUI was ordered to serve 10 to 25 years behind bars Thursday for a drunken-driving crash that killed a North Las Vegas woman.
A Las Vegas man faces federal charges in connection with what prosecutors describe as an investment fraud scheme with upward of 400 victims, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
A man serving at least a dozen years behind bars for sexual attacks on children was indicted Wednesday on rape charges from nearly 17 years ago after a re-examination of DNA evidence.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday canceled arguments in the state prison system’s appeal of a decision that halted condemned killer Scott Dozier’s execution.
Drug companies could encounter backlash and risk hurting their growth in the medical industry if their products are used in an execution, a pharmaceutical industry expert testified Monday.
Ted Binion’s death 20 years ago led to what has become known in Las Vegas as the “trial of the century.”
Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German wrote definitive works on the death of Ted Binion.
Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen, who will have served 18 years, recently announced that her retirement is set for April. Magistrate Judge George W. Foley Jr., who will have served 14 years, and Magistrate Judge Carl Hoffman Jr., who will hve served eight years, are set to retire in August.
The Nevada prison system’s supply of execution drugs will not expire until at least February, the head pharmacist for the Department of Corrections testified Wednesday.
Nevada’s prison director disregarded letters from three drug manufacturers who did not want their medication used in an execution.