Tues Roundup

Convicted sex offenders are challenging a new Nevada law that tracks sex offenders based on the crime they committed instead of their assessed risk of re-offending. The sex offenders' attorney, Randall Roske, says the new law is unconstitutional and demonizes a group of people who aren't a risk to society. (Fox 5) [uh . . . I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that most people wouldn't describe convicted sex offenders as not "a risk to society". But maybe it's just me]

A 24-year-old man has been arrested on a second-degree murder charge for allegedly providing more than 160 pills, including 32 hydrocodone pills to a 16 yr-old wrestler at Centennial High School. (Review-Journal)

Apparently, the U.S. Dept. of Justice doesn't know how we do things in Nevada. They are looking into the details of how the Dept. of Energy awarded a four-year $47.7 million contract to handle licensing for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository with Morgan Lewis & Bockius, a firm acknowledged to have conflicts on nuclear waste matters. (Review-Journal)

After 15 minutes of deliberating, a coroner's jury unanimously found a Las Vegas police officer was justified when he shot and killed a man who was armed, pacing and screaming for the demons to go away and had pointed his weapon at a friend and his brother. (Review-Journal)

One of the first patients infected with hepatitis C at Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada spoke about the infection, "When they diagnosed me with hepatitis C, it was just like my whole world crashed." (Las Vegas Now) [makes me proud the judicial system will allow Dr. "Needles" Desai to plead the 5th and not testify in the civil trial].

Some homeowners who are being foreclosed on are vandalizing the property before leaving. (Las Vegas Now)

A Lyon County man was sentenced to eight years in prison for the unprovoked February knife attack/throat slashing of a Carson City man. (Nevada Appeal)

Apparently Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joe Bonaventure doesn't want alleged murderers on the street of Vegas. A 24-year-old woman accused of murder in connection with slaying of a furniture store manager was denied bail on Monday morning. (Review-Journal)

Over at the O.J. circus, District Court Judge Jackie Glass rejected a bid by O.J. Simpson's defense team (headed by criminal defense attorney Gabriel Grasso) to question prospective jurors about what they know and think about the former football star and a bid to use a lengthy pretrial questionnaire to gauge how people in the jury pool might respond to defense strategies in Simpson's armed robbery and kidnapping case. (Review-Journal)

Congratulations to Richard Chatwin, named as an associate by the Gerrard Cox Larsen law firm. (Review-Journal)

And Congratulations to Steve Hiltz, directing attorney for the Clark County Legal Services Program's Children's Attorney Project, who the American Bar Association recognized with its Child Advocacy Award. (Las Vegas Business Press)

Finally, Congratulations to Michael Bonner, John Brewer, Mark Ferrario, Mark Fiorentino, Robert Gronauer, Christopher Kaempfer, Neal Klegerman and Thomas Kummer, who Chambers USA ranked as leaders in gaming, corporate law, litigation and real estate/zoning and land use. (Las Vegas Business Press)