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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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.
The construction crew that built the stage and escape route for Copperfield’s “Lucky #13” illusion offered to settle the lawsuit for $450,000 about a month before the trial started in April, according to a judge’s ruling.
A 39-year-old woman with a history of DUI was ordered to serve 10 to 25 years behind bars Thursday for a drunken-driving crash that killed a North Las Vegas woman.
A Las Vegas man faces federal charges in connection with what prosecutors describe as an investment fraud scheme with upward of 400 victims, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
A man serving at least a dozen years behind bars for sexual attacks on children was indicted Wednesday on rape charges from nearly 17 years ago after a re-examination of DNA evidence.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday canceled arguments in the state prison system’s appeal of a decision that halted condemned killer Scott Dozier’s execution.
Drug companies could encounter backlash and risk hurting their growth in the medical industry if their products are used in an execution, a pharmaceutical industry expert testified Monday.
Ted Binion’s death 20 years ago led to what has become known in Las Vegas as the “trial of the century.”
Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German wrote definitive works on the death of Ted Binion.
Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen, who will have served 18 years, recently announced that her retirement is set for April. Magistrate Judge George W. Foley Jr., who will have served 14 years, and Magistrate Judge Carl Hoffman Jr., who will hve served eight years, are set to retire in August.
The Nevada prison system’s supply of execution drugs will not expire until at least February, the head pharmacist for the Department of Corrections testified Wednesday.
Nevada’s prison director disregarded letters from three drug manufacturers who did not want their medication used in an execution.
The Nevada Department of Corrections will not have to turn over the name of a physician who had been scheduled to oversee the execution of Scott Dozier, despite a court ruling last week.
A Las Vegas man charged with murder in the death of a 3-year-old boy was arraigned Monday, three days after he refused to appear in court.
A former probation officer pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder for fatally stabbing his girlfriend in their Las Vegas apartment.
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