LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The Clark County District Lawyer’s workplace argued for the removing of a decide from felony instances on Thursday.
Chief Deputy District Lawyer Chris Hamner introduced an argument to Chief Choose Jerry Wiese asking for Choose Erika Ballou to be faraway from overseeing instances prosecuted by the district legal professional’s workplace.
“We symbolize a whole lot and 1000’s of victims of crime, and a whole lot of victims have their instances appeared earlier than Choose Ballou, and we’re the get together that represents them and that’s the reason at this level, we would have liked to do that, particularly given the dynamics of what’s taking place proper now,” Hamner stated in courtroom. “The habits was so egregious.”
The argument stems from a felony case first highlighted by the 8 Information Now Investigators. A grand jury indicted Mia Christman in 2013 for a violent crime spree.
Ballou vacated Christman’s conviction and Christman was launched from jail. Prosecutors took the case to the Nevada Supreme Courtroom. Ballou ignored two separate orders from Nevada’s excessive courtroom.
The Nevada Supreme Courtroom ordered District Courtroom Choose Jerry Wiese to take away Ballou from Christman’s case in Could. The Could third order pointed to “the district courtroom’s failure to conform.” Christman was ordered to return to jail to serve the rest of her unique sentence.
District Lawyer Steve Wolfson filed an ethics grievance with the Nevada Fee on Judicial Self-discipline on April 30 accusing Ballou of 5 ethics violations.
Hamner argued that Ballou ought to be faraway from felony instances and deal with solely civil instances whereas the ethics grievance is pending.
Ballou beforehand confronted unrelated ethics fees. A number of had been associated to social media posts, together with a photograph of Ballou in a sizzling tub with two public defenders.
Ballou admitted she violated a number of ethics guidelines in an settlement and order of public censure with the fee filed on June 11.
Wiese stated he’ll overview courtroom video from the Christman case as he makes his determination.
