JURIST
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Elizabeth Haigh is JURIST’s Chief of Staff for the US and a 2L at the University of Nevada, William S. Boyd School of Law. She files this dispatch from Las Vegas, Nevada. I found out about the lockdown—ironically—as I was studying for criminal law and procedure. Police stress that the number could change.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 9, 2022
There is a bizarre case unfolding in Las Vegas, Nevada where Eric Holland, 57, was arrested after police found a dismembered body in his truck. ” Holland has a long criminal record across the states of Nevada, California and Texas, according to Newsweek. Holland is now arguing that it was a terrible coincidence.
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JURIST
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
According to a June report by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Georgia, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas also require some incarcerated persons to work for no pay. Nevada pays the highest recorded wage to incarcerated persons in any state: $24 a day to fight forest fires.
JURIST
OCTOBER 20, 2021
The shooting occurred during a period of heightened public support for gun control measures following mass shootings in Paradise, Nevada, and Sutherland Springs, Texas. Cruz was charged with 17 counts of preempted murder and 17 counts of attempted murder.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 23, 2021
Law enforcement often identify victims incorrectly as witnesses of an event, in order to protect themselves from liability, inadvertently barring families from needed aid , according to a new report published by the Nevada Law Journal. . Who is a Victim? .
The Crime Report
AUGUST 9, 2023
Meanwhile, states like New York , Illinois , Nevada , and California have extended their statute of limitations on a wide range of sex crimes that expand the window for survivors to take legal action against their attackers and receive justice. TCR: How do we define a victim and what needs to be done to better protect and support them?
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
In Gentile v State Bar of Nevada , 501 U.S. .” The order is an example of the ever-expanding scope of these orders. Courts have become untethered from the narrow parameters laid down by the Supreme Court in prior cases.
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