A man was acquitted of an attempted murder charge Thursday, more than two years after he shot at a shoplifting suspect outside a Target store in southwest Las Vegas.
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.
David Copperfield, under his company David Copperfield’s Disappearing Inc. sued a German company for creating a replica of his “highly sophisticated flying object” used in his “Live the Impossible” performance at MGM Grand Hotel.
A man whose life sentence was overturned because of a prosecutor’s comments more than a decade ago was found guilty Wednesday in a shooting that left a 22-year-old woman dead.
A 25-year-old Las Vegas woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of second-degree murder and driving under the influence for a crash that killed an 8-year-old boy in August.
Prosecutors should not have been allowed to show jurors photographs of the charred bodies of a cab driver and his passenger, defense attorneys for convicted killer Ammar Harris argued Monday before the Nevada Supreme Court.
The Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in the appeal of a former Clark County teacher whose sexual relationship with a student led to a kidnapping conviction.
Prosecutors dropped charges Monday against four California dentists, including three brothers, who defense attorneys said were falsely accused of raping a woman at a Las Vegas Strip hotel.
Maggie McLetchie, a Las Vegas Review-Journal attorney since 2012, received the Nevada Press Association’s First Amendment champion award for 2018 on Saturday night.
A judge on Friday prohibited the Nevada prison system from using its supply of a sedative in the lethal injection of condemned killer Scott Dozier, essentially halting the possible execution for the foreseeable future.
A District Court judge and a Nevada appellate court judge vying for a seat on the state’s high court delved into their potential roles on Friday.
An Arizona man is facing federal charges in connection with the sexual assault of a woman at a Laughlin resort, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
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.
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.
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