LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury that heard a former Las Vegas-area Democratic politician insist that evidence including DNA tying him to the killing of an
Robert Telles addresses the jury during his murder trial at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. Telles, a former Clark County public administrator, is charged in the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative journalist Jeff German.
Those stories included allegations that Telles had a romantic relationship with a female employee, which Telles admitted for the first time Thursday were true. German was working on another report about that relationship when he was killed. Telles spoke directly to the jury through a narrative method that relieved defense attorney Robert Draskovich of the responsibility for leading him in the usual question-and-answer format.
Hamner had suggested the message might have been deleted from Telles’ phone. But on Friday, Matthew Hovanec, a Las Vegas police digital forensics supervisor, testified there was no way to determine if it had been deleted. The killing drew widespread attention. German was the only journalist killed in the U.S. in 2022, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. The nonprofit has records of
German’s body was found the next day and Telles’ DNA was found beneath German’s fingernails. When asked about that DNA, Telles said he believed it was planted.
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