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- March Madness gets under way today meaning less productivity for the next two days. Who do you having winning it all or getting the big upset?
- RIP Steve Morris. [RJ]
- Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony broke ethics law by promoting women’s sports task force [TNI]
- CCSD schools: we won’t play Bishop Gorman in football. [RJ]
- No pardon for former Las Vegas attorney who murdered wife. [RJ]
Bear Down!
Guy arrested 35 times previously arrested for a 36th time. Who could have seen that coming? https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/las-vegas-police-re-arrest-35-time-arrestee-on-27-new-charges-after-disputed-release-im-tired-of-it-sheriff-says/
>On Wednesday, Metro arrested Sanchez-Lopez for the 36th time, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported. According to the department, officers found him with a shaved mail key, fraudulent ID and credit cards, and methamphetamine. Officers arrested Sanchez-Lopez during a traffic stop on Boulder Highway near Desert Inn Road after a complaint of a man going through mailboxes at an apartment complex.
Bro, at some point, we gotta lock people up a little bit longer. I’m a bleading-heart liberal but there needs to be some degree of escalation if you keep clearly breaking the law.
Public flogging might do the trick.
Free meals and a bed in jail are clearly not enough of a deterrent.
You’re probably joking but to be clear, anyone who has been arrested 36 times has a brain that didn’t develop correctly and that makes it impossible for him to control his impulses. And in this case, that is combined with drug addiction, which is probably both a cause and effect of his neurological condition. Whatever draconian punishment you want to mete out will have 0 impact on his decision making. This guy is not carefully weighing costs and benefits, and increasing the costs will have no effect on his inability to act rationally.
But I’d probably agree that at this point we need to lock him up for a very long time because he simply can’t function in a law-abiding society. In crim justice terms, it’s about incapacitation, not deterrence.
Or employ a wood chipper.
That is so “Fargo”
Hmm…too many assumptions made here, my dude
In general, I’m a Fuck tha’ Police, ACAB, bail is a fuckin’ Constititional Right kind of guy, and I firmly believe that they need to follow court orders. In this case, though, I’m less certain. I’m reading the statute, and damned if it doesn’t seem like the court can’t order electronic surveillance. They can order confinement, and the way I read the statute, they can say the person is eligible for monitoring. At that point, it’s up to the sheriff to determine if they want to do electronic monitoring.
I’m fairly liberal in general when it comes to bail, electronic monitoring, house arrest, etc. But when someone has proven themselves over and over again to be nothing but a career criminal, that sort of thing is not for them.
Here is the problem. In the old days prisoners would have to go out a break rocks into sand. hard labor.
Now they get to lay around all day, go out into the pod to smoke and joke, get fed. Boring, but for most criminals it is just like a time out for your kid, boring but wait it out. Not a big deal for them.
Lamar Odom is not being represented by Chesnoff?
Odom is broke as I understand it. Gotta pay to ride the Chesnoff train. He doesn’t need publicity.
The MGM Fire case was well before my time when Steve Morris made his bones as it were, but i remember during the heyday of the Harmon Construction Defect he still held the room even at that slightly advanced age. In a room of all the top billers and partners in the town he was 1A
Still married to Kris Pickering?
Yes.
I had the opportunity to work with him some early in my career. He was a giant. One of the best I ever knew. Little known fact: he failed the bar exam the first time.
Yes, Al Gunderson (a former Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice) famously labeled local attorney Steve Morris a “loser” in legal documents filed with the Nevada Supreme Court. This occurred around 2010 as part of a heated response to attacks Morris had made against Gunderson’s wife, Lupe. The incident was widely noted as an example of Gunderson’s combative nature, even in his later years, with observers remarking that the former judge did not “go gently” into retirement.
Gunderson was a piece of…work, to put it mildly.
Imma be for real and admit that the only time I ever cared about college basketball was between 1989 and 1991 when everyone had Runnin’ Rebel Fever
https://youtu.be/PST5Zvw6PKQ?si=Usx-IbduvJvCoxg9
Gorman had Snoop Dog’s son playing for it. Allegation is that the school recruits like it is a college.
Someone posted a comment about how the State Bar goes after solo practitioners more than attorneys at larger firms. As an attorney at a larger firm who has to deal with solo practitioners on a number of different cases, I get it now.
They take plainly incorrect legal positions that are unsupported by law or fact, file things late all the time, and are slow to communicate. Do betterrrrr
As a solo practitioner, we don’t have a monopoly on any of those things.
So no one is going to say what supposedly happened in Judge Reynolds’ courtroom the other day?
What happened
It’s widely known that Reynolds takes the bench completely naked under his robs. My guess is that it had something to do with that.