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Archive: Las Vegas -28 August 2024
1. Robert Telles walking into courtroom ++MUTE++
2. Various Telles in court awaiting verdict ++PART MUTE++
3. Wide of District Judge Michelle Leavitt and clerk in court
4. Robert Telles standing in court as the verdict is being read UPSUOND (English) Court clerk reading verdict:
"District Court Clark County, Nevada, State of Nevada, plaintiff, versus Robert Telles, defendant. Case number C368935, department number 12 verdict. We, the jury in the above-entitled case, find the defendant Robert Telles as follows: Murder with the use of a deadly weapon, victim 60 years of age or older, guilty of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon. Victim 60 years of age or older special verdict: the jury unanimously finds the murder willful, deliberate, and premeditated. The jury unanimously finds the murder was committed by means of lying in wait. The jury unanimously finds the murder was committed by means of elder abuse. Guilty of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon special verdict: the jury unanimously finds the murder willful, deliberate, premeditated."
5. Telles standing in court after verdict
6. Telles exiting courtroom ++MUTE++
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7. Medium, Defense Attorney Robert Draskovich, during closing arguments
8. Various Robert Telles in court
9. Prosecutor Christopher Hamner during closing arguments
10. Telles in court
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11. Courtroom sign
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12. View of Las Vegas from the courthouse
STORYLINE:
A former Las Vegas-area Democratic elected official was sentenced Wednesday to serve at least 28 years in Nevada state prison for killing an investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of his conduct in office two years ago and exposed an intimate relationship with a female coworker.
A judge invoked sentencing enhancements for elements including use of a deadly weapon, laying in wait and the age of the reporter to add eight years to the minimum 20-year sentence that a jury set in August after finding Robert Telles guilty of murder.
Telles, 47, testified in his defense and denied stabbing Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German to death in September 2022. But evidence against him was strong — including his DNA beneath German’s fingernails.
At the time, Telles was the elected administrator of a county office that handles unclaimed estate and probate property cases. He has been jailed without bail since his arrest several days after the attack.
Telles’ defense attorney, Robert Draskovich, has said Telles intends to appeal his conviction.
German was 69. He was a respected reporter who spent 44 years covering crime, courts and corruption in Las Vegas.
Telles lost his primary for a second term in office after German’s stories in May and June 2022 described turmoil and bullying at the Clark County Public Administrator/Guardian office and a romantic relationship between Telles and a female employee. His law license was suspended following his arrest.
Police sought public help to identify a person captured on neighborhood security video driving a maroon SUV and walking while wearing a broad straw hat that hid his face and an oversized orange long-sleeve shirt. Prosecutor Pamela Weckerly showed footage of the person wearing orange slipping into the side yard where German was stabbed, slashed and left dead.
Telles’ attorney, Robert Draskovich, has said Telles intends to appeal his conviction.
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