A former Las Vegas attorney, disbarred for his role in defrauding the court system, is being held without bail after he was charged with DUI this week.
David Ferrara
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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.
It’s been a year and a half since Mark Georgantas cut a deal with prosecutors on what would be his 21st felony conviction, and he’s sidestepped sentencing ever since, just as he did Wednesday.
Prosecutors had asked that bail be set at $1 million for Cierre Wood, 28, and Amy Taylor, 25, but Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melanie Tobiasson ordered them held without bail.
A judge denied bail Tuesday for one of three people charged in the killing of a California doctor.
A Las Vegas man who orchestrated a pair of jewelry store heists just months after walking away from similar robbery charges because of a legal blunder was ordered to serve more than 27 years in federal prison Monday.
A 26-year-old Las Vegas man is facing a terrorism charge after authorities accused him of boasting about shooting elementary school children.
Judge Doug Smith is stepping down from the bench Friday, after having served in Las Vegas Justice Court and the Clark County District Court.
A former professional football player was denied bail Thursday on murder and child abuse charges in the Tuesday evening death of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter.
The mother of a 31-year-old man killed by Las Vegas police in a hospital emergency room has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Metropolitan Police Department.
A lawyer for Cliven Bundy said Wednesday that he plans to appeal a judge’s decision to throw out a lawsuit in which the Southern Nevada rancher sought to declare all public lands a part of the state.
A judge on Tuesday dismissed Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s lawsuit that sought to declare all public lands a part of the state.
The parents of an Instagram model killed in a plane crash last year have filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Las Vegas.
A 48-year-old Nevada prisoner pleaded guilty Monday to threatening to kill a federal judge and her family in Reno.
A Las Vegas jury rejected former U.S. Sen Harry Reid’s claims in a civil case against the makers of a resistance exercise band after about an hour of deliberations Friday.
A Las Vegas woman accused of stealing more than $1 million from Southern Glazer’s Wine Spirits, the state’s largest alcohol distributor, was indicted Thursday on 47 felonies.
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