TheAuroraSentinelEx-politician convicted in 2022 killing of Vegas reporter, jury sets sentence at 20 years to life
‘I am not the kind of person who would stab someone. I didn’t kill Mr. German’
haor.orgWho is Robert Telles? Nevada Politician Convicted of Killing Journalist Jeff German and Sentenced to Life in Prison
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Who is Robert Telles? Nevada Politician Convicted of Killing Journalist Jeff German and Sentenced to Life in Prison - Hot and On-the-Record
Robert Telles, 47 a former Nevada politician, has been found guilty of first-degree murder for the death of investigative journalist Jeff German.
Flipboard News DeskJury finds former politician Robert Telles guilty of murdering Las Vegas journalist Jeff German in 2022.
NPR reports: "Telles was the Clark County Public Administator, whose office oversees the disposition and transfer of deceased people's assets in the absence of next of kin or a valid executor. But he lost his bid for re-election in the Democratic primary in June of 2022, after the Las Vegas Review-Journal published critical articles about him."
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NonilexWhen asked during cross-examination about whether he would have won his June 2022 primary if #JeffGerman had not written the articles, #Telles responded: “Probably, yes.”
Telles had been angry w/ #German over his reporting, which he expressed in msgs to the reporter, in tweets — & during the cross-examination.
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…During cross-examination Thurs, prosecutor Christopher Hamner pressed #Telles about a text msg his wife sent him on the morning #JeffGerman was killed: “Where are you?”
…Before his death, #German had planned to write another story on Telles. German had been waiting for a public records request, which had focused on communications the public administrator had w/Reid & the staffer he’d been accused of having an affair with.
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Rita Reid decided to challenge his reelection bid “because of the brewing animosity” in the public administrator’s office, acc/to #German’s reporting.
During an interview w/ #JeffGerman at the time, #Telles denied having an affair w/the staffer. On Thurs during cross-examination, Telles reversed course, saying in the hearing that he had lied & admitting that he & the staffer were romantically involved.
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The prosecution rested its case on Aug 19 after 4 days of witnesses & presentations that relied heavily on the #evidence police recovered from #RobertTelles’s home, #photos & #surveillance #video from the day of the stabbing, & a match between #Telles’s DNA & #DNA recovered from underneath #JeffGerman’s fingernails.
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The trial saw #RobertTelles take the stand against the advice of his attorney. During a winding, narrative testimony delivered across 2 days, #Telles accused those he clashed w/while in public office of framing him.
In the months before his death, #JeffGerman had written about Telles & his office, chronicling an alleged affair between the public administrator & a staffer & the tension that ensued among employees.
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A #Nevada jury found a fmr county ofcl #guilty of #murder in the fatal stabbing of investigative #journalist #JeffGerman, in a case that shocked his #media colleagues & the city he’d covered for decades.
The #verdict ended an 11-day trial of #RobertTelles, fmr #ClarkCounty public administrator who was a subject of German’s stories before the reporter’s Sept 2, 2022, killing.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/28/jeff-german-vegas-murder-verdict/
