This fine fellow Wright, he of the Tupac t-shirt, was the subject of a recent entry herein. Therefore, no reason to belabor the procedural history – or histrionics – of his case. Suffice to say, his crimes, and antics, recently earned him a 27 year sentence in a federal prison tbd (to be designated – …
Justice Delayed – Still Sweet In early 2016, a convicted felon named Brian Wright was facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison for masterminding a string of armed robberies which netted $1.1 million worth of jewelry. Then, suddenly, the April 25 trial date for Wright and co-defendant Danielle Perreira was vacated. U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon ripped into the federal prosecutors handling the case for discovery …
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Where is Cary Sayegh? A gap toothed little boy’s smiling face, frozen in time, confronted the reader’s of the Las Vegas Review Journal several months ago. The subject of the photograph was 6 year old Cary Daniel Sayegh. Circa 1978. The headline, above the fold, read….”The Disappearance That Still Haunts” The subtitle, in bold, …
What has drawn the Pissed Off Prosecutor out of hibernation and back to business? Well, it has been quite a nostalgic week for me, and not in a pleasant way. THE CARY SAYEGH DISAPPEARANCE First, I got a call from a local reporter about what was possibly the most frustrating case of my career. A …
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CANELO I was about ready to congratulate the Nevada Athletic Commission for suspending Saul “Canelo” Alvarez as a result of two positive PED (performance enhancing drugs) tests. But hold on. Bear in mind that this is a Commission with a long history of doing the wrong thing – I’ve addressed that history here several times. …
Let’s see, where did we leave off….. Oh yeah, the Cliven Bundy prosecution. A monumental disaster which resulted in a dismissal, during trial, when the court found “flagrant” ethical violations on the part of the Government. Well since then, the lead Bundy prosecutor, Acting U.S. Attorney, “Semper Fi” Steve Myhre, was replaced by a veteran …