- Court seeking state-county partnership to conduct mental tests
- Wednesday, May 24, 2006
- District Judge Jackie Glass isn't asking for any special treatment. Instead, she is simply seeking the same treatment District Court in Washoe County has received from the state Division of Mental Health and Developmental Services since 1999.
- DA finds himself in a race
- Friday, May 19, 2006
- Is anyone going to run against District Attorney David Roger?
- Court recordings come under fire
- Wednesday, May 10, 2006
- Most prosecutors would drool over the chance to have recordings of what defendants and their attorneys talk about.
- Phone system to help traffic violators pay faster
- Wednesday, May 3, 2006
- The system, which allows people to make full or partial payments or schedule a new court date, is expected to ease congestion that has frustrated people trying to take care of their traffic tickets.
- Court : Sex case must be public
- Friday, April 28, 2006
- The Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a state panel must conduct its proceedings in public when it determines whether a sex offender poses a high risk of recidivism.
- Judges' support less than stated
- Thursday, April 27, 2006
- Chief District Judge Kathy Hardcastle, who wants control of the Clark County clerk's court responsibilities, doesn't have as much support from judges as she has said.
- Lethal injection: Is it cruel?
- Tuesday, April 25, 2006
- Barring a last-minute appeal, an IV will drip lethal drugs into Daryl Mack's veins on Wednesday, and if doctors' estimates prove true, he will die about 90 seconds later - punishment for sexually assaulting and strangling a 55-year-old Reno woman in 1988.
- Mental health court helps man turn life around
- Thursday, April 20, 2006
- The 48-year-old is a diagnosed bipolar schizophrenic who, for at least the last 12 years, has only casually taken his medication between a series of short-lived jobs and cocaine binges.
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- Thursday, April 20, 2006
- Terry Louis has lived a life of drugs, crime and mental illness.
- Nevada judges do well when cases are reviewed Nevada
- Wednesday, April 19, 2006
- Forty-three of Nevada's 60 District Court judges were overturned at least once between January 2003 and last August, a period studied by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign journalism class.
Matt Pordum
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