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The prosecution rested its case on Aug 19 after 4 days of witnesses & presentations that relied heavily on the #evidence police recovered from #RobertTelles’s home, #photos & #surveillance #video from the day of the stabbing, & a match between #Telles’s DNA & #DNA recovered from underneath #JeffGerman’s fingernails.
#law #Criminal #politics #violence #LasVegas #Nevada #Journalism
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The trial saw #RobertTelles take the stand against the advice of his attorney. During a winding, narrative testimony delivered across 2 days, #Telles accused those he clashed w/while in public office of framing him.
In the months before his death, #JeffGerman had written about Telles & his office, chronicling an alleged affair between the public administrator & a staffer & the tension that ensued among employees.#law #Criminal #politics #violence #LasVegas #Nevada #Journalism
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Ex-county ofcl #convicted of murdering #LasVegas #reporter
A #Nevada jury found a fmr county ofcl #guilty of #murder in the fatal stabbing of investigative #journalist #JeffGerman, in a case that shocked his #media colleagues & the city he’d covered for decades.
The #verdict ended an 11-day trial of #RobertTelles, fmr #ClarkCounty public administrator who was a subject of German’s stories before the reporter’s Sept 2, 2022, killing.#law #Criminal #politics #violence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/28/jeff-german-vegas-murder-verdict/