The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation asked questions about 101 judges from the Nevada Supreme Court and multiple lower courts.
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Noble Brigham started covering breaking news at the Review-Journal in June 2024. He graduated from Brown University in 2024 and previously freelanced for The Providence Journal and interned at the Idaho Statesman and The Virginian-Pilot. He grew up in Philadelphia.
Fourteen judges received retention scores over 90 percent in the Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation and are considered strong performers.
Lawyers who filled out the Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation want two Clark County district judges to leave the bench but gave high marks to others.
District Judge Erika Ballou has been suspended from the bench, censured and removed from all criminal cases.
Jose Gutierrez, 19, already faces two counts of open murder, a count of attempted murder and a count of battery with a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm, according to court records.
The changes have occurred since protests in June, when thousands gathered in downtown Las Vegas to oppose President Donald Trump’s administration and its immigration policies.
Gruden sued the league and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, arguing leaked emails he wrote had pushed the Raiders to fire him.
Police previously said “a verbal altercation occurred.” The defendants, who pleaded guilty to murder, apologized in court.
A Las Vegas attorney found to have committed misconduct in a case against Cristiano Ronaldo has been temporarily suspended and faces disbarment, court records show.
The video shows the suspects placing the device at the door to the restaurant and fleeing before it explodes.
Antwone Washington, a football coach and campus security officer at Valley High School, was indicted last year. He pleaded guilty to two felonies.
The district attorney only knows of two or three times that the charge she faces was prosecuted in the last five years.
In a separate hearing Tuesday, the son of the restaurant’s founder avoided jail time in his own criminal case.
Jose Gutierrez, 19, was arrested following the 12-vehicle crash that killed his pregnant girlfriend and another driver.
The judge said prosecutors met the standard of probable cause and presented evidence that could help him to the grand jury.