Judge Melanie Andress-Tobiasson faces a five-day Zoom hearing before the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline starting Monday. In a deposition last month, she accused Sheriff Lombardo of intimidation and retaliation. [Nevada Current]
Evictions are spiking in southern Nevada. [Nevada Current]
The Supreme Court of Nevada reversed the conviction and death sentence of a man accused of killing his wife and an intruder finding that Judge Stefany Miley abused her discretion in allowing prior-bad-act evidence. [News3LV]
March trial date set for men accused in Boogaloo protest attack plot. [News3LV]
There are dozens of children in the foster care system in need of a pro bono attorney. Have you considered helping? [LACSN]
RIP to the Vegas cyclists who lost their lives yesterday. I didn't know them at all but this feels deeply tragic. Not Route 91 Shooting tragic, a different but similar tragedy. These were all locals from what I've seen. Very sad.
The Tobiasson situation is an awful lot for the Commission to unpack. It's just too complex and consists of multi-layered convoluted conspiracy theories on top of other conspiracy theories, salted with corruption allegations, etc.
The Commission would be wise to avoid focusing too much on whether the judge is essentially correct or incorrect about her theories, as it will be very difficult(actually, virtually impossible) to formulate any reliable, conclusory findings as to the extent her various theories are supported by the evidence.
Instead, the Commission should make it clear that they are not the agency to determine to what extent, if any, all of these multi-layered allegations of corruption and conspiracy are valid. Instead, they should take the approach that whether the judge's suspicions were valid or not, that it was wrong for her to get so proactively involved in these matters. They should make it clear that her involvement should have ended at reporting wrong doing, and then if need be serving as a witness as to anything she has knowledge on.
That all said, even if the Commission wisely takes that approach(and avoids the sucker play of attempting to determine which of the judge's allegations are accurate), and keeps the focus on her exceeding her authority and becoming far too personally involved in criminal investigations and other matters, she still has an ace up her sleeve that I'm not sure the Commission will effectively combat. That is that she was a highly distraught mother trying to save her teen daughter from a prostitution ring, and it appeared the authorities were not at all sufficiently responding to some very helpful information she offered.
That's a problem the Commission may have. But a problem the judge may have is that she may not grab onto the life raft of acknowledging she went way too far, and in retrospect would have avoided getting so directly involved. Instead, she may double down and insist all her actions were proper and that her very direct involvement was the only chance to save her daughter based on the inertia and corruption she claims to have encountered form law enforcement when she sought help.
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December 11, 2020 6:19 pm
10:12, It's even more complex than you describe.
I would wager some of her suspicions and theories are accurate, while some of her other theories simply go too far. I would agree it would be unwise for the Commission to get too absorbed in ruling on the validity of her various theories, but instead the focus should be that whether she is right or not, that she should not have gotten so directly involved.
This whole situation would make a great espionage thriller.
Some of the judge's actions and assertions really seem out there, while others sound supportable. I can only imagine how I would behave if my teen daughter was at risk in the manner that this child was.
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December 11, 2020 6:34 pm
I am so proud of our Nevada Supreme Court. We let off dui murderers and a double killer, but we will screw over Nevadans in civil cases. Nice, sleep well assholes.
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December 11, 2020 6:38 pm
"Evictions are spiking in southern Nevada."
I have to ask, is there any correlation between the spike in evictions and the spike in landlord's not receiving rent payments?
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December 11, 2020 6:39 pm
Of course he lives in Pahrump. LOL. I love Nevada. I mean New Nevada.
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December 11, 2020 6:46 pm
The Eviction numbers are not surprising. Eviction Master David Brown is ignoring CDC Declarations. Doesnt care. On appeal to District Court, he is getting reversed about 80% of the time in the hearings that I have observed. What that means is that tenants who are savvy enough to know to appeal and post the costs bond to get a stay get to stay in their homes; tenants who are not savvy are on the street.
This is the crazy part for me. I dont know if its the Law of Large Numbers but 3000 people is alot but insignificant if its 3000 strangers. And 3000 people out of 350,000,00 means only 1 in 116,000 people died of it today. Really minute. Except 3000 people a day is 1,095,000 people in a year. That means 1 in 316 people I know would die this year. My Facebook friend list is 1000 people. Means 3 of my friends would arguably die this year. Now I went through that list and picked the 3 who I am ready to part with. All kidding aside, I already lost one of them and it sucks.
There's a COVID stigma? This is news to me. Good grief. So are there people who are legitimately embarrassed for having COVID – or slamming those who contract COVID? I've had multiple family members contract it, I figure it's only a matter of time before I do. What's the stigma – please tell. This is disturbing. Also – very sad to hear that a colleague passed away.
I'll admit that I do judge SOME but not ALL people who get COVID-19. I judge the people who are careless and get it, especially the anti-maskers. If you've been careless and posted about it on social media, or you've been an anti-masker, you're gonna get judged if you get infected. And you probably deserve the judgment.
I recognize that there are thoughtful people who get it too, despite their efforts to protect others.
3:35 – you're depraved and this disturbs me, greatly. What is your judgment exactly and how do you know? Are you going to swear that you've not left your home once since March 16? You've stayed in your bubble, ordering all food and sanitizing anything you touch? You've not been around any humans outside your household? And if you have been out – for what? What is acceptable and what is not and who has decided? If you've decided- based on what and whom? Are those who died of AIDS to be judged as deserving? Are obese individuals with poor health to be judged as deserving of their poor health? Are smokers in the 60's and 70's to blame for their later deaths of COPD? Are the cyclists who were killed yesterday to be blamed for their deaths because they were cycling on a highway? Who the hell are you to decide what is, or is not acceptable behavior when it comes to disease. Any person can get COVID. If masks or behavior kept a person from it – explain all the talking heads who allegedly stay home, masked – contracted it – Sisolak comes to mind. Check your own health and behavior. It's good to admit that you judge, we all do, but maybe you should rethink this issue.
This is an absurdly infectious disease. It spreads quite easily, and often with little regard to precautions that one can take. To 3:35, did you also feel free to judge those folks who contracted HIV from various risky practices as well?
I don't wear a mask just as I did not wear a condom during the HIV scare (Fauci was in on that scam). Adults make adult decisions. Stay home trembling in your stupid masks, maybe even with a condom on your lonely staff. Life's too short. I've been to some incredible parties recently.
@3:58. You think Sisolak stayed home, masked, and still got covid?? That's funny. You apparently missed when he violated his own orders earlier this year. Another day. Another hypocritical Democrat governor.
@ 7:26 – you're trolling a law blog on a Friday evening with asinine conspiracy theories. Yeah, somehow I doubt you are, or ever were drowning in poontang.
I never had much respect for her before or after she became a judge, but she's a decent human being who tried her best. That's more than most judges. Enjoy retirement, Judge Miley.
Miley over other judges, too. At least she applied the law, instead of making political rulings.
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December 14, 2020 12:42 am
Yet another eviction moratorium from Sisolak under "emergency" authorization that's going on 9 months now.
I don't necessarily disagree with the need for a temporary moratorium, but at what point do we acknowledge that "emergency" powers that last for more than 9 months are fundamentally incompatible with separation of powers? We need legislation that limits emergency power under NRS 414.070 to a reasonable period like a 30 day initial period with possible 1 30-day extension. If it can't be resolved within 60 days, it may be important and it may be urgent, but it's not an emergency. It's the current state of affairs, and should be handled legislatively. Looks like both Sen. Pickard and Assbly. Wheeler has something in the works in that area. Look forward to the Nevada legislature passing a resolution declaring the emergency is terminated and the Governor's powers under NRS 414.070 likewise terminated.
When does this end? Bush took my house. Obama took my insurance. Sisolak took my job. What is left for Biden to take?
Right: My vote. He nullified my vote and that of 80 million other Americans. Naturally, he and his corporate overlords will need to spend the next four years taking my freedom of speech, carefully de-platforming, shaming, and even prosecuting dissenting voices so that the next election steal can go even more smoothly than the current one.
Does Hunter Biden need a grape feeder? Hoe handler? Drug runner? I'm available.
RIP to the Vegas cyclists who lost their lives yesterday. I didn't know them at all but this feels deeply tragic. Not Route 91 Shooting tragic, a different but similar tragedy. These were all locals from what I've seen. Very sad.
I knew one of them. Very sad.
WTF is this New California/New Nevada dog doo? Can someone explain?
Love how Mr. Thomas doesnt even waste time explaining what new california and new nevada are. he just assumes everyone understands. and we do.
peaceful separation or violent separation.
who ya got?
(c) none of the above.
The Tobiasson situation is an awful lot for the Commission to unpack. It's just too complex and consists of multi-layered convoluted conspiracy theories on top of other conspiracy theories, salted with corruption allegations, etc.
The Commission would be wise to avoid focusing too much on whether the judge is essentially correct or incorrect about her theories, as it will be very difficult(actually, virtually impossible) to formulate any reliable, conclusory findings as to the extent her various theories are supported by the evidence.
Instead, the Commission should make it clear that they are not the agency to determine to what extent, if any, all of these multi-layered allegations of corruption and conspiracy are valid. Instead, they should take the approach that whether the judge's suspicions were valid or not, that it was wrong for her to get so proactively involved in these matters. They should make it clear that her involvement should have ended at reporting wrong doing, and then if need be serving as a witness as to anything she has knowledge on.
That all said, even if the Commission wisely takes that approach(and avoids the sucker play of attempting to determine which of the judge's allegations are accurate), and keeps the focus on her exceeding her authority and becoming far too personally involved in criminal investigations and other matters, she still has an ace up her sleeve that I'm not sure the Commission will effectively combat. That is that she was a highly distraught mother trying to save her teen daughter from a prostitution ring, and it appeared the authorities were not at all sufficiently responding to some very helpful information she offered.
That's a problem the Commission may have. But a problem the judge may have is that she may not grab onto the life raft of acknowledging she went way too far, and in retrospect would have avoided getting so directly involved. Instead, she may double down and insist all her actions were proper and that her very direct involvement was the only chance to save her daughter based on the inertia and corruption she claims to have encountered form law enforcement when she sought help.
10:12, It's even more complex than you describe.
I would wager some of her suspicions and theories are accurate, while some of her other theories simply go too far. I would agree it would be unwise for the Commission to get too absorbed in ruling on the validity of her various theories, but instead the focus should be that whether she is right or not, that she should not have gotten so directly involved.
This whole situation would make a great espionage thriller.
Some of the judge's actions and assertions really seem out there, while others sound supportable. I can only imagine how I would behave if my teen daughter was at risk in the manner that this child was.
I am so proud of our Nevada Supreme Court. We let off dui murderers and a double killer, but we will screw over Nevadans in civil cases. Nice, sleep well assholes.
"Evictions are spiking in southern Nevada."
I have to ask, is there any correlation between the spike in evictions and the spike in landlord's not receiving rent payments?
Of course he lives in Pahrump. LOL. I love Nevada. I mean New Nevada.
The Eviction numbers are not surprising. Eviction Master David Brown is ignoring CDC Declarations. Doesnt care. On appeal to District Court, he is getting reversed about 80% of the time in the hearings that I have observed. What that means is that tenants who are savvy enough to know to appeal and post the costs bond to get a stay get to stay in their homes; tenants who are not savvy are on the street.
Is there a way to search / compile these appeals in Odyssey?
Learned today of my first attorney/contemporary to die of COVID here in town. Doesnt mean there have not been others, just the first I learned.
Don't know if you're talking about the same person but it is very sad. He was only about 50.
I know of a guy who I think was 52. It is very sad. I am not identifying the person only because of the COVID stigma.
Even 3,000 deaths per day can feel like an abstraction until it hits someone you know. RIP.
This is the crazy part for me. I dont know if its the Law of Large Numbers but 3000 people is alot but insignificant if its 3000 strangers. And 3000 people out of 350,000,00 means only 1 in 116,000 people died of it today. Really minute. Except 3000 people a day is 1,095,000 people in a year. That means 1 in 316 people I know would die this year. My Facebook friend list is 1000 people. Means 3 of my friends would arguably die this year. Now I went through that list and picked the 3 who I am ready to part with. All kidding aside, I already lost one of them and it sucks.
There's a COVID stigma? This is news to me. Good grief. So are there people who are legitimately embarrassed for having COVID – or slamming those who contract COVID? I've had multiple family members contract it, I figure it's only a matter of time before I do. What's the stigma – please tell. This is disturbing. Also – very sad to hear that a colleague passed away.
I'll admit that I do judge SOME but not ALL people who get COVID-19. I judge the people who are careless and get it, especially the anti-maskers. If you've been careless and posted about it on social media, or you've been an anti-masker, you're gonna get judged if you get infected. And you probably deserve the judgment.
I recognize that there are thoughtful people who get it too, despite their efforts to protect others.
3:35 – you're depraved and this disturbs me, greatly. What is your judgment exactly and how do you know? Are you going to swear that you've not left your home once since March 16? You've stayed in your bubble, ordering all food and sanitizing anything you touch? You've not been around any humans outside your household? And if you have been out – for what? What is acceptable and what is not and who has decided? If you've decided- based on what and whom? Are those who died of AIDS to be judged as deserving? Are obese individuals with poor health to be judged as deserving of their poor health? Are smokers in the 60's and 70's to blame for their later deaths of COPD? Are the cyclists who were killed yesterday to be blamed for their deaths because they were cycling on a highway? Who the hell are you to decide what is, or is not acceptable behavior when it comes to disease. Any person can get COVID. If masks or behavior kept a person from it – explain all the talking heads who allegedly stay home, masked – contracted it – Sisolak comes to mind. Check your own health and behavior. It's good to admit that you judge, we all do, but maybe you should rethink this issue.
@3:35 – "There are thoughtful people who get it too." WTF
This is an absurdly infectious disease. It spreads quite easily, and often with little regard to precautions that one can take. To 3:35, did you also feel free to judge those folks who contracted HIV from various risky practices as well?
I don't wear a mask just as I did not wear a condom during the HIV scare (Fauci was in on that scam). Adults make adult decisions. Stay home trembling in your stupid masks, maybe even with a condom on your lonely staff. Life's too short. I've been to some incredible parties recently.
@3:58. You think Sisolak stayed home, masked, and still got covid?? That's funny. You apparently missed when he violated his own orders earlier this year. Another day. Another hypocritical Democrat governor.
@7:26 PM
Stupid is as stupid does.
Or as more elegantly put, common sense is not so common.
Sounds like 7:26 is having fun. Uncommon sense is what matters.
@ 7:26 – you're trolling a law blog on a Friday evening with asinine conspiracy theories. Yeah, somehow I doubt you are, or ever were drowning in poontang.
He's not.
My Spidey Sense tells me 7:26's tastes do not lean towards poontang, if you know what I am saying.
Fair point. I also doubt he is, or ever was drowning in bootytang.
"Booty tang"
This is why normies want to keep you away from children.
I have been away for a couple of years-how is Miley still on the bench?
She's not.
I don't think Miley has resigned. I think her term of office ends the first of January and she didn't run for re-election.
I never had much respect for her before or after she became a judge, but she's a decent human being who tried her best. That's more than most judges. Enjoy retirement, Judge Miley.
Miley over other judges, too. At least she applied the law, instead of making political rulings.
Yet another eviction moratorium from Sisolak under "emergency" authorization that's going on 9 months now.
I don't necessarily disagree with the need for a temporary moratorium, but at what point do we acknowledge that "emergency" powers that last for more than 9 months are fundamentally incompatible with separation of powers? We need legislation that limits emergency power under NRS 414.070 to a reasonable period like a 30 day initial period with possible 1 30-day extension. If it can't be resolved within 60 days, it may be important and it may be urgent, but it's not an emergency. It's the current state of affairs, and should be handled legislatively. Looks like both Sen. Pickard and Assbly. Wheeler has something in the works in that area. Look forward to the Nevada legislature passing a resolution declaring the emergency is terminated and the Governor's powers under NRS 414.070 likewise terminated.
When does this end? Bush took my house. Obama took my insurance. Sisolak took my job. What is left for Biden to take?
Right: My vote. He nullified my vote and that of 80 million other Americans. Naturally, he and his corporate overlords will need to spend the next four years taking my freedom of speech, carefully de-platforming, shaming, and even prosecuting dissenting voices so that the next election steal can go even more smoothly than the current one.
Does Hunter Biden need a grape feeder? Hoe handler? Drug runner? I'm available.