A above Las Vegas baby-kisser has been beginning accusable of murdering an adept announcer whose analytic belief apparent atrocity aural his department.
A board deliberated for 12 hours afore award that Robert Telles, 47, who formed in an accessible administrator’s office, stabbed anchorman Jeff German to afterlife two years ago.
The aforementioned board afterwards assertively Telles should absorb 20 years in jail. While he never faced the anticipation of the afterlife penalty, he could accept been confined for activity afterwards parole.
Telles, who had claimed he was innocent and the victim of a busy operation to anatomy him for the killing, befuddled his arch as the board delivered its finding.
“I am not the affectionate of being who would ache someone. I didn’t annihilate Mr. German,” he told the court. “And that’s my testimony.”
Telles allegedly abhorrent German for accident his career afterwards he bootless to win re-election to his position afterwards an alternation of exposes in the The Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The 69-year-old anchorman was the alone announcer dead in the US in 2022, according to columnist rights groups.
In a statement, Glenn Cook, controlling editor of the newspaper, said the board had delivered “an admeasurement of amends for Jeff German”.
“Jeff was dead for accomplishing the affectionate of assignment in which he took abundant pride: His advertisement captivated an adopted official answerable for bad behavior and empowered voters to accept addition abroad for the job,” Mr. Cook said.
Prosecutor Christopher Hamner explained to the jurors that award Telles accusable would be like “connecting the dots” based on an all-inclusive bulk of affirmation he presented to them. This included DNA that akin that of Telles begin below German’s fingernails.
Mr. Hammer told the cloister that the announcer had approved to action off the aggressor who abhorrent him for ruining his career and aggressive his marriage.
The cloister was told that the accessories abundant anarchy and blowing at the Clark County Accessible Administrator’s appointment and an adventurous accord amid Telles and one of his staff.
Mr. Hamner said Telles had begun out from bodies in his appointment aloof hours afore German was killed, that the anchorman was alive on addition adventure about that relationship.
Defense advocate Robert Draskovich showed the board an angel during his closing arguments of an individual, whose contour did not attend like Telles’, active a beach agent that affirmation showed was key to the crime.
He said none of German’s claret or DNA was begin on Telles, in his agent or at his home. He asked the board to ask itself: “What affirmation is missing.”
Telles’ mother and wife were present at the cloister on Wednesday and able statements to be apprehend as appearance attestant testimony.
German had spent 44 years accoutrement crime, courts and bribery in Las Vegas. About a dozen of his ancestor's associates and accompany accept watched the trial. To date, they accept beneath to comment.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said the adjudication should “send a message”.
He added: “And that bulletin is a bright bulletin that any attempts to blackout the media or to blackout or alarm an announcer will not be tolerated.”
