The trial of a Las Vegas-area politician accused of killing an investigative reporter who wrote articles critical of him will take center stage in Nevada on Monday, with jury selection scheduled to start in a case that stunned Sin City and the world of journalism.
“It turned everything upside down,” Tom Pitaro, a veteran Las Vegas defense attorney, said of the death of reporter Jeff German, who for 44 years developed deep confidential sources in the city, its government and its courthouses.
Pitaro also taught Robert Telles, the public official accused of killing German, in law school about a decade ago at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
“When you have an office-holder, a respected journalist, and the kind of killing it was, I think people are in shock about how this could come about,” Pitaro said.
It’s not important to the murder, which is what’s being discussed in the article.
I suppose the name of the accused wasn’t important either? Yet, it was buried 3 paragraphs in.
Edit: also, if ‘politician’ is important, then what kind should be as well. Edit Edit: I suppose affiliation only is important with regards to DUI charges?
Same agency and yet this time the article lists the suspect’s political affiliation (R - mentioned last paragraphs). I didn’t even need to look this up, someone posted the article on Lemmy right after I closed the first edit.
I didn’t say the word “politician” wasn’t important. The politician’s political affiliation IS unimportant.
Please try to verify that you are understanding the convo here.
You need to check your own literacy skills there fren. You’re doing exactly what you claim I am doing.