WWL wants to say congratulations to William O. Voy. We tend to cover a lot of negative news here on the blog, but we're impressed with and happy to cover Judge Voy's crusade against underage prostitution. Turns out CBS Evening News is impressed as well.
Judge Voy appeared (first seen on the video at 2:54) on the national news program to discuss his proposed lockdown safe house for underage prostitutes arrested in Vegas:
City subpoenas have been sent out to Dr. "Needles" Desai and other Endoscopy physicians, but most subpoenaed witnesses are expected to skip today's hearing (Las Vegas Sun)
The family of an ice cream truck driver killed by Henderson police have filed suit (Review-Journal) 
Lawsuit accuses Vegas chiropractor as fraud (Review-Journal) [another Nevada doctor running a scam? shocking]
Nevada's criminal laws are soon to make the national spotlight again. This time, it's how the Courts handle juvenile pleas. The ACLU and Public Defenders from Washoe and Clark county are challenging a procedural loophole for Prosecutors.National and state groups and individuals are challenging a Nevada law that makes juveniles admit guilt to charged crimes in efforts to avoid trial as an adult - but lets prosecutors use those admissions if juveniles end up in adult court anyway. . .The article goes on to state:
The legal brief is in support of an appeal filed by two youths, identified only as William and Marques, from the Las Vegas area who were certified as adults in November, at age 17, in robbery cases. They were a year or two younger when the robberies occurred.
"Extorting an admission from juveniles for the purpose of avoiding transfer (to adult court) and then allowing the use of such admissions to support transfer and ultimately guilt at the trial stage is completely at odds with the standard of fundamental fairness required in juvenile proceedings," the brief states.
Another group, the National Juvenile Defender Center, plans a separate document arguing that juveniles in such cases can't get proper legal representation since attorneys must advise juveniles to admit guilt to avoid adult certification.Nice. So if you're young in Nevada, plead guilty to the crime to avoid the harsh penalty of being tried as an adult. Unless, of course, the judge decides to try you as an adult anyway. Then you're screwed because you already plead guilty. Good, old-fashioned Silver State justice.
"That's not how a productive attorney-client relationship usually goes," [according to attorney Lee Rowland of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada].
The ACLU-Juvenile Law Center brief notes that at least 19 other states have laws protecting juveniles against self-incrimination when a judge determines whether they should be tried in juvenile or adult courts.
