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Las Vegas: 1979 2022–present — — Biden: 14 Senior Judge Howard D. McKibben: Reno: 1940 1984–2005 1997–2002 2005–present Reagan: 18 Senior Judge Roger L. Hunt: inactive: 1942 2000–2011 2007–2011 2011–present Clinton: 19 Senior Judge Kent Dawson: Las Vegas: 1944 2000–2012 — 2012–present Clinton: 21 Senior Judge James C ...
The Clark County District Attorney is the elected district attorney of Clark County, Nevada. [1] The current Clark County District Attorney is Steven B. Wolfson. [2]As of 2021, the Clark County District Attorney's Office employs approximately 170 attorneys and over 500 support staff. [1]
The justice courts are courts of limited jurisdiction that hear only minor cases; in general, they hear misdemeanor cases (including traffic tickets), [a] and civil cases involving $15,000 or less (including evictions and small claims cases). [17] [18] They may also hold probable cause hearings for felony and gross misdemeanor cases. [19]
The District Courts also hear appeals from the limited jurisdiction state courts, which are composed of 17 Municipal Courts (which handle involving traffic ticket and misdemeanor violations of ordinances occurring within the city limits of incorporated municipalities) and 45 Justice Courts (which handle misdemeanor crime and traffic matters ...
The court's secondary courthouse in Las Vegas, which it shares with the Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, the state supreme court continued to lobby the people and the legislature of the state of Nevada to create an intermediate appellate court. The Legislature eventually authorized the latest attempt to appear on the November 2, 2010 ballot.
The Nevada Department of Corrections utilizes five custody levels. These custody levels are: [3] Maximum - This is the most restrictive custody level in the Department. These inmates may not exit their cells without constant, direct supervision. They have a very high potential for violence, and are generally segregated from one another.
The Southern District of California was abolished and the State made to constitute a single district – the United States District Court for the District of California – by Act of Congress approved July 27, 1866, 14 Stat. 300. [2] [3] Twenty years later, on August 5, 1886, Congress re-created the Southern District of California by 24 Stat ...
The Chief Justice rotates on the Supreme Court of Nevada, almost always to a judge who is in their final two years of their term. Following the expansions of the court in 1967 and 1999, judges began to split what had traditionally been a two-year term between two or three justices, allowing each justice the opportunity to be Chief Justice during their six-year term.