The Review-Journal studio sits down with Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court Kristina Pickering for an one-on-one interview.
Prosecutors are asking the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn a judge’s decision to dismiss attempted murder and battery charges at the start of a trial this week. District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez dismissed the charges on Tuesday after prosecutors delayed in calling a witness to testify. (Clark County District Court and Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Clark County prosecutors are increasingly charging fatal DUI suspects with murder. However David Westbrook and his wife, Deborah, are public defenders who are litigating a case involving such a defendant and have already filed a brief with the Nevada Supreme Court noting case law has already rejected this practice. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Las Vegas lawyer Jacob Hafter died Tuesday at the age of 42. Las Vegas police dispatch logs show that officers went to Hafter’s office at about 1:15 p.m. after receiving a report of a suicide attempt. According to the Clark County coroner’s office, Hafter was taken to UMC, where he was pronounced dead .
His cause of death has not been determined. The controversial lawyer was suspended by the Nevada Supreme Court in Novemeber for lying under oath and making derogatory public comments about a district judge.
Items from the Oct. 1 Las Vegas Strip shooting have entered the marketplace for so-called murderabilia True crime memorabilia dates as far back as the Great Depression when passersby dipped handkerchiefs in the blood of gangster John Dillinger So-called Son of Sam laws started in New York in the 1970s to block killers from profiting from their crimes. The Nevada Supreme Court struck down the state’s own version of the law in 2004 eBay’s 2001 ban on crime memorabilia and similar actions by online marketplaces paved the way for murderabilia auction websites In 2011, the federal government raised about $232,000 selling the belongings of the Unabomber, responsible for multiple bombings between 1978 and 1995 Money went to survivors like Yale University professor David Gelernter One collector said he’s sold 2,500 pieces of murderabilia ranging from $10 to $5,000