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Pics of DA boondoggle hotel room available

As noted here, the Clark County District Attorney's Office devoted substantial resources to creating a hotel room out of plywood in the basement of the Regional Justice Center. They did so in a relatively simple robbery case, even though such effort has not been seen in the most complex or significant cases. It's clear -- from the five week trial schedule, to the fact that police officers guarding the outside of the court outnumber protesters and gawkers by at least 3 to 1, to the fact that DA David Roger is personally prosecuting the case -- that celebrity defendants don't receive the same kind of justice as that given to average defendants. It's time for an accounting. How much did the pretend hotel room cost? How many hours were spent creating it? Is there no better use for the 335 square feet in the courthouse basement? Why was the jury here allowed to visit the alleged crime scene when such requests are routinely denied in most other cases? Until then, via Norm, Vegas Happens Here provides photos of the boondoggle...continue to full post

Full post as published by Harmful Error on September 22, 2008 (boomark / email).