Opening statements to begin in murder trial of ex-politician accused of killing Las Vegas reporter
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Opening statements are expected Wednesday in the murder trial of Robert Telles, the former Nevada politician accused of fatally stabbing a Las Vegas investigative journalist who had published stories critical of him, in a case that could feature the defendant’s own testimony.
Opening statements are expected Wednesday in the murder trial of Robert Telles, the former Nevada politician accused of fatally stabbing a Las Vegas investigative journalist who had published stories critical of him, in a case that could feature the defendant’s own testimony. Telles, previously the Clark County Public Administrator, has pleaded not guilty to murder with use of a deadly weapon in the 2022 death of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, who was repeatedly stabbed outside his house. The indictment alleges the killing was “willful, deliberate and premeditated,” and/or perpetrated by “lying in wait” for him. With no eyewitnesses, prosecutors are likely to focus on video and DNA evidence placing Telles at the scene of the killing as well as his alleged efforts to destroy evidence. Telles plans to testify in his own defense, his attorney Robert Draskovich told CNN affiliate KTNV. The trial in Clark County comes nearly two years after the killing highlighted concerns about violence against journalists, even in the United States. There have been 14 journalists killed in the US since 1992, most recently a TV reporter who was fatally shot in Florida last year while covering an earlier shooting, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. “When we say journalism is a dangerous business, we are most often talking about international crisis and foreign correspondents, but right here in a major city in the United States, we see the depth to which dark forces may sink in order to stop publication of the truth,” Jen Judson, president of the National Press Club, and Gil Klein, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, said in a joint statement shortly after German’s death.
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