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Emotions ran high in federal court Thursday as five members of a Korean organized crime ring arrested in a home invasion sting were sentenced to stiff prison terms.
In closing arguments Wednesday after seven weeks of testimony, lawyers for three people infected in Southern Nevada’s hepatitis C outbreak asked a jury to award their clients a total of $25 million in compensatory damages from three companies that knew for years that their 50-milliliter vials of propofol were being reused among multiple patients.
The lawyer representing Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle addressed a Las Vegas jury today and accused federal agents of pursuing a criminal case against the war hero to generate publicity. Attorneys spent five hours presenting their closing arguments today, and jurors will begin deliberating Thursday.
A 20-year-old Bullhead City, Ariz., mother pleaded guilty today to second-degree murder in the death of her infant son. Staci Barbosa faces a 13-to-20-year prison term when sentenced in January for the June 2010 death of 5-week-old Matthew Vandergriff.
Miranda Du, who came to the United States in childhood as a Vietnamese refugee, took a step Tuesday toward becoming a U.S. District Court judge in Nevada. Sixteen members of Du’s family dotted the audience as she was questioned at a confirmation hearing by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A 37-year-old California man was arrested Monday night at a resort on the Strip after traveling to Las Vegas with a 16-year-old girl who had been reported missing by her mother about seven hours earlier.
The defense rested its case today in the trial of a Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle, accused of bringing weapons into the country from Iraq and conspiring with others to sell them. A fellow SEAL testified that the suggestion that a SEAL could bypass customs inspections and sneak so-called “war trophies” into the country “would be laughable if the implications weren’t so serious.”
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