Nevada Blogs

A PBS documentary on the United States Supreme Court begins tonight.The local schedule is available here.

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The Legislature will consider a proposal to change the two-week filing period for Supreme Court, District Court and Justice Court judicial candidates from mid-May to mid-January of an election year. If the proposal passes, the Supreme Court will consider amending the state's Code of Judicial Conduct to prohibit fundraising by unopposed judicial candidates.

Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice Maupin appeared by a joint panel of the Assembly Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees yesterday and requested a $98 Million, two year budget for the state Supreme Court, district courts, and family courts. The request is a 29% increase over the present budget. He noted that ...

Assembly Judiciary Committee 8:00 a.m.videoconferencing is available in room 4401 fo the Grant Sawyer Office BuildingPresentationRegulation of Gaming in Nevada - Dennis K. Neilander, Chairman, State Gaming Control BoardPresentationCourt System in NevadaRon Titus, Director and State Court Administrator, Administrative Office of the Courts, Supreme CourtCommittee BDR introductionsSenate Judiciary - no meeting scheduled

Assembly Judiciary Committee 8:00 a.m.videoconferencing is available at room 4401 of the Grant Sawyer Office BuildingPresentationLegislative Commission's Subcommittee to Study Sentencing and Pardons, and Parole and Probation (Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 17. Assemblyman William C. Horne ChairmanThe remainder of the agenda concerns child support. The agenda is available here.Senate Judiciary Committee 8:00 a.m.S.B. ...

Assembly Judiciary Committee 8 a.m.videoconferencing will be provided at room 4401 of the Grant Sawyer Office Bldg.Staff PresentationAudit ReportsNevada Department of Corrections, Inmate MedicalNevada Department of Corrections, AdministrationNevada Department of Corrections, Offender Trust AccountsPaul Townsend, Legislative Auditor, Audit Division, Legislative Counsel BureauPresentationNevada Department of CorrectionsGlen Whorton, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections Frederick Schlottman, Adminstrator, Offender ...

Assembly Judiciary Committee 8 a.m. videoconferencing will be provided at Room 4401 of the Grant Sawyer Office Bldg.Opening remarks and introduction of committee members and staffAssemblyman Bernie AndersonAdoption of Standing Rules of the Assembly Committee on JudiciaryStaff presentationCommittee Brief and overview of session deadlinesJennifer Chisel, Committee Policy Analyst, Research Division, Legislative Counsel BureauStaff presentationLegal issues ...

AB 14 - Makes various changes to provisions concerning graffiti and other damage to property. Introduced by Assemblyman Oceguera.AB 15 - Enacts the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act. Introduced by Assemblyman HorneAB 17 - Allows justice courts to appoint masters in proceedings involving temporary or extended orders for protection against stalking, aggravated stalking ...

Friday, February 9, 200745166 GATO (RENE) VS. STATE9:00 AM 30 minLas Vegas Courtroom - 17th FloorSouthern Panel (Gibbons/Maupin/Douglas ) Chris Oram is counsel for the appellant. Gato was found guilty of burglary, murder with use of a deadly weapon and robbery with use of a deadly weapon following a 9 day jury trial. ...

The Death Penalty Information Center features the following articles this week:New Resources: "State of the States" Report Features US Death Penalty DevelopmentsNorth Carolina Panel Bars Doctors From Participating in ExecutionsFederal Death Penalty: Man Receives Life Sentence for Role in Illegal Immigrant DeathsTexas Man Exonerated by DNA Evidence; Court and Prosecutor ApologizeThe Mentally Ill, Behind Bars ...

Judicial Elections Weighed, LVRJ 1/27/07District, Family Courtrooms: Group leader seeks Tasers for bailiffs, LVRJ 1/29/07Court ruling might yield caution among lawyers, LVRJ 1/29/07Editorial, courting finances, LVRJ 1/29/07Letter to the editor, Jurors get the shaft on parking, LVRJ 1/29/07Tactical Interdiction: 'Scourge' of meth targeted, LVRJ 1/28/07Parole Board keeps two killers behind bars, LVRJ 1/27/07Tonapah jail death ...

The Nevada Department of Correction is terminating a drug and alcohol treatment program run by an outside group. The DoC notes charges of racial discrimination, sexual orientation discrimation, and improper mandating of religious activities. Vitality Unlimited, a nonprofit group that runs the WINGS program disputes the charges, asserts that prison chief Glen Whorton ...

The Southern Panel of the Nevada Supreme Court will hear argument in Las Vegas on February 8 and 9. The following is the February 8, 2007 schedule:44398 ROSE (JEFF) VS. STATE10:00 AM 30 minLas Vegas Courtroom - 17th FloorSouthern Panel (Gibbons/Douglas/Cherry ) Howard Brooks is counsel for the appellant. He reports that the ...

A jury convicted James Ray Walker of first-degree murder. The capital penalty hearing will begin today before Judge Adair. His co-defendant, Myrdus Archie, was convicted of second-degree murder.

"A defendant in a criminal case is entitled, upon request, to a jury instruction on his or her theory of the case, so long as there is some evidence, no matter how weak or incredible, to support it." Williams v. State, 99 Nev. 530, 531, 665 P.2d 260, 261 (1983). See also Rosas ...

"Pursuant to Nevada statutory and clase law, a defendant may be convicted of a lesser offense that is necessarily included in the charged offense. A defendant in Nevada has a right to a jury instruction on such a lesser-included offense as long as there is some evidence to support the offense." There is ...

Harmful Error announces a new category for posts: "Quotes I Like," which will feature quotes I like.

The Nevada Supreme Court published one opinion today. It is a corrected opinion of its December 21, 2006 opinion in Rosas v. State. The Court noted that it was brought to the Court's attention that the district court entered a corrected judgment in the case on July 28, 2004, which rendered footnote 2 ...

Tuesday, February 6, 200747040 WARE VS. RIELLY9:30 AM 30 minCarson City Courtroom - Second FloorEn Banc (Full Court ) 44749 BUTLER VS. BAYER10:00 AM 30 minCarson City Courtroom - Second FloorEn Banc (Full Court ) 44801 BUCHANAN (KENYON) VS. STATE10:30 AM 30 minCarson City Courtroom - Second FloorEn Banc (Full Court ) This appears to ...