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How can you sleep at night knowing what you have done.

January 11, 2018

It is not a secret that I have never been too fond of the office of the Public Defender, or the office of the Special Public Defender; I have always measured them both — Public Defender and the Special Public Defender — as equal to the District Attorney’s Office, perhaps erroneously, but because their payroll checks come from the same place and are signed by the same person. I have seen two brave Public Defenders fighting for their clients and that[…]

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O.J. to be released from prison?

July 19, 2017

(HORN NEWS) — O.J. Simpson, the former football star and acquitted double-murder suspect, is expected to be released from prison soon — and when he walks out, he’ll instantly become a millionaire. As Nevada prison inmate No. 1027820, O.J. will have a lot going for him when he asks state parole board members this week to release him after serving more than eight years for an ill-fated bid to retrieve sports memorabilia. “If he is let out of prison, the[…]

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LVMPD Indifference to Internal Justice

May 11, 2017

Last week, I started relaying the story of a Metro officer forced to retire after attending a police picnic and having a couple of things go the wrong way. He IS responsible for his conduct — of course! But the conduct does not come anywhere near to meriting a termination after a Kangaroo Court (pre-termination hearing). The first charge against ‘Joe-Lo’ was noted last week. It is a fictitious charge now known as “administrative” DUI[…]

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LVMPD’S Disgraceful Terminations: I Wish It Were Joe-Lo

May 3, 2017

I learned last week about the end of yet another police officer’s career in Las Vegas. It didn’t take much analysis of the information that I was given to realize that this was a disgrace. Let me explain. The Sheriff’s Protective Association is a ‘social’ organization. They sponsor the annual Christmas Party, the SPA Picnic, and they used to sponsor an event at ‘Wet & Wild’ and I participated in all of these activities with[…]

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DA Wolfson lied to Nevada Supreme Court about not having dishonest cops “Liar’s List

December 10, 2016

By Hans Sherrer Special to the Las Vegas Tribune Evidence has been discovered that Clark County District Attorney Steven Wolfson lied to the Nevada Supreme Court when he said he doesn’t have a “Liar’s List” of dishonest cops. Wolfson denied he has a “Liar’s List,” as a defense to one of Kirstin Lobato’s claims for a new trial in her habeas corpus appeal currently in the Supreme Court. Wolfson’s lie to the Supreme Court in Ms. Lobato’s case was[…]

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The HOA Scandal gets better

March 12, 2015

The man who once told the Las Vegas Tribune that he has all judges in Clark County in his pocket, “especially the Black judges,” could be right after all. Leon Benzer, the man behind the Home Owners Association scandal, bragged about his connection with judges and Mob associates to the Las Vegas Tribune while visiting the newspaper offices on East Sahara Avenue. After years of gathering evidence and putting a case together, the trial of several of those involved in the[…]

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Injustice is the essence of the problem that will not go away

December 10, 2014

By Thomas A Nagy Part 23 in a Series Previously in this series it was reported that the Clark County district attorneys David Roger and Steven Wolfson have declined to bring charges against the person known to have killed Jason R. Turner-Shenker in September 2005. More than nine years have passed and each district attorney has yet to investigate this homicide with intent to resolve the matter. Instead of prosecuting the case staff members of the district attorney’s office have harassed[…]