LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Las Vegas-area politician standing trial for the killing of an investigative reporter who wrote articles critical of him spent a
A collision on NB I-5 just north of S 272nd St in Kent is blocking the right two lanes. Fire and State Patrol are on scene.Robert Telles shows how he cut his finger while speaking to the jury from the witness stand on the eighth day of his murder trial at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas Wednesday, August 21, 2024. Telles, a former Clark County public administrator, is charged in the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative journalist Jeff German.
“All I knew was that something funny was going on,” Telles said after being allowed by the judge to testify by “narration” instead of the usual question-and-answer format led by his defense attorney. Telles described his elected office role as “trying to stop someone from stealing equity” by preventing “unscrupulous real estate agents from trying to work the system.”
Telles, 47, was an attorney who practiced civil law before he was elected in 2018. His law license was suspended following his arrest several days after German was slashed and stabbed to death outside his home. No family members have been called as character witnesses on Telles’ behalf. Earlier, a cellphone data expert testifying in Telles’ defense conceded during questioning by a prosecutor that Telles’ phone showed no outgoing activity from 8:48 a.m. to 2:05 p.m. that day — the period in which evidence has shown German was killed.Telles told jurors Thursday he had the phone “all day,” and didn’t feel the need to respond to every text, voice or data message.
At Telles’ house, police found cut-up pieces of a broad straw hat and a gray athletic shoe that looked like those worn by a person captured on neighborhood security video wearing an oversized orange long-sleeve shirt, carrying a big cloth satchel and slipping into a side yard of German’s home before the reporter was ambushed and left dead in a pool of blood.
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