No. of Recommendations: 13
The criminal case underway in Nevada that charged multiple state Republican officials with concocting a scheme to file a false elector slate for the state's 2020 election result was tossed by a judge. The case was brought to state court in Las Vegas but the judge tossed the case under the rationale that most of the crimes described in the case occured in Carson City, NV and therefore the charges should have been filed in that district.
Now prosecutors have a major problem. Nevada has a three year statute of limitations for these crimes. The state Attorney General vowed to appeal the judge's decision to the Nevada State Supreme Court but that is now the only option left. Due to the statute of limitations, they cannot convene a new grand jury in the other part of the state to re-file charges.
This appears to be another case of a judge purposely "engaging" with a prosecutor to simply tangle a case in delay before finally crippling the case entirely on dubious legal grounds. In this case, the judge already ruled in MARCH of 2024 that the case wouldn't actually go to TRIAL until January 2025. Now why would a judge spend the time trying to SLOT a case on the court's docket before reviewing the grand jury's indictment, reviewing the crimes and locations listed, examining the address of her court, and IMMEDIATELY providing the feedback of "wrong jurisdiction"?
If nothing else, this proves the criticality of prosecutors avoiding delays in investigating these crimes and filing charges. In this case, the indictments were filed on December 6, 2023. That was already at the end of the statute of limitations. In this bizarro legal world we live in where sitting justices are citing venue technicalities regarding crimes that essentially victimize an entire state, prosecutors CANNOT assume their first bite at the apple will stick. They can't burn the entire statute of limitations attempting to perfect a case that has not cleared the first hurdle to justice -- getting accepted into the system at all.
WTH
