Las Vegas Judge Jennifer Togliatti, whose career included prosecuting misdemeanors and murders and overseeing some of the most high-profile cases from the bench, is expected to hear her last calendar of cases Friday.
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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.
Judge Stefany Miley, who has served on the bench since 2005, faces one count of battery domestic violence under her maiden name stemming from an incident that occurred Saturday, according to Las Vegas municipal court records.
Scott Dozier tried suicide more than 14 years ago. That’s why the Nevada prisoner, who would rather face execution than live on death row, would not make another effort to die by his own hand, he told the Review-Journal on Friday.
Condemned Nevada prisoner Scott Dozier wants to die, but he denies that he attempted to take his own life after his execution was canceled.
A Las Vegas man was convicted Wednesday of orchestrating a pair of jewelry store heists just months after walking away from similar robbery charges because of a legal blunder.
Brian Wright, a man prosecutors said masterminded a pair of jewelry store heists just months after walking free of similar allegations because of legal errors, told jurors Tuesday that an FBI agent had a vendetta against him.
Nevada prison officials say they had “no choice” but to place condemned inmate Scott Dozier in isolation after his second canceled execution.
A jury acquitted a pair of former Nevada Department of Corrections officers of felony charges Friday after a weeklong trial.
Prosecutors rested their case against two former Nevada Department of Corrections officers on Thursday without calling the inmate against whom they are accused of using unnecessary force.
A pair of former Nevada Department of Corrections officers faced a jury Wednesday on felony charges involving an encounter with an uncooperative inmate.
A Las Vegas man who told his apartment manager that he would rob a bank to pay rent and later did so with a fake bomb was ordered to serve 46 months in federal prison on Wednesday.
Brian Wright, the alleged mastermind of a series of jewelry store heists who walked free because of mistakes by federal prosecutors, declared Tuesday that the government had manufactured evidence against him.
A Las Vegas doctor with ties to Henderson judge Diana Hampton, who died of a drug overdose, pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to distribution of a controlled substance.
Nine people met Friday’s deadline to apply for a vacancy on the Nevada Court of Appeals.
Buried in the Nevada attorney general’s court papers over blocked lethal injection drugs sits a line that hints at a bleak future for capital punishment in the state.
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