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Robert Telles verdict: Dem Vegas politician accused of killing journalist found guilty, sentenced to life
A jury on Wednesday found a former Las Vegas-area Democratic politician charged with murder in the slaying of an investigative journalist who had written critical stories about him guilty.
Robert Telles, 47, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years.
Jurors began deliberating Monday to determine if they agreed with prosecutors' claims that Telles stabbed veteran investigative journalist Jeff German to death in September 2022, just months after German wrote stories critical of the Democrat and his workplace conduct, including allegations of an inappropriate romantic relationship with a female coworker.
Las Vegas jurors deliberated for about four hours Monday before breaking for the evening. The panel of seven women and five men deliberated for about six hours on Tuesday following a two-week trial. Attorneys gave closing arguments on Monday morning.
On Monday, they sent the judge a note seeking more notepaper and a court technician to show them how to zoom in on laptop video while in the jury room.
Prosecutor Christopher Hamner said during closing arguments Monday that German wasn’t finished in his work of exposing Telles, which ultimately led the politician to taking out the veteran journalist.
Telles lost his Democratic primary for a second term after German’s first stories for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in May 2022 about Telles’ conduct heading an obscure county office that handles unclaimed estates. He practiced civil law before he was elected in 2018 and his law license was suspended following his arrest several days after German was killed.
"And he did it because Jeff wasn’t done writing," Hamner said. "It’s like connecting the dots. He murdered him because Jeff's writing destroyed his career. It destroyed his reputation. It threatened probably his marriage. Exposed things that even he admitted he did not want the public to know."
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The day before German was stabbed to death, Telles learned that Clark County officials were about to provide German with email and text messages that Telles and the woman shared, in response to the reporter’s request for public records. Another story was in the offing, Hamner said.
German was killed the next day.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/robert-telles-verdict-dem-vegas-politician-accused-killing-journalist-guiltyDemokraattien poliitikko
Robert Telles tuomittiin toimittaja
Jeff Germanin murhasta. German oli jutuissaan kertonut, miten Tellesin käytöksestä.
