Thursday, April 17, 2008

Thurs Roundup

While the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Kentucky's lethal injection program yesterday as not being "cruel and unusual punishment," the Nevada Supreme Court still has a challenge to the state's lethal injection program pending (Review-Journal)

The legal battle over state petition procedure continues between education acitivists and casino attorneys, with the possibility that all parties will have to start over if the Judge alters the petition (Las Vegas Sun)

After a four month probe by the Labor Dept. of the Las Vegas chapter of the Service Employees Union, a report suggests that the union misused funds and broke labor laws (Las Vegas Sun)

A Dayton, NV man was charged with possession of a firearm while intoxicated after he shot himself in the leg and blew a BAC of .128 (Nevada Appeal)

Coma-recoverer and ricin possessor Roger Bergendorff appeared in Federal Court yesterday and stated that he wasn't a criminal and that it was “not in my blood” to spread the poison that a prosecutor calculated could have killed at least 522 people. (SignonSanDiego)

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