A Look Into Judge Stefany Miley's Career
Clark County Eighth Judicial District Court Judge Stefany Miley accused Las Vegas Metropolitan Police of gamesmanship delays as the city sought to uncover exactly what happened during that shooting, which was the largest mass shooting in the history of the country, leaving 58 victims dead and hundreds injured. Two more victims succumbed to their wounds…
OPINION Clark County Eighth Judicial District Court Judge Stefany Miley was assigned to adjudicate the case in which a number of media members joined to file suit against the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) to force the department to release hours of accumulated video, audio and other records they collected in their investigation of…
A Las Vegas woman and her boyfriend both were sentenced by Judge Stefany Miley in the case of a shaken baby who lived for years with his injuries but succumbed at the age of 5. The mother, Monique Bork, plead guilty to child abuse and murder in her case. Separately, the man, Edward Thompson, was…
The case was dubbed “The Dumbbell Murderess.” In a brutal slaying, Elita “Gabby” Maldonado dropped a 40-pound dumbbell on William Sanford’s head while he slept and stabbed him 38 times. Maldonado claimed that she killed Sanford, 49, because she heard the voices of her two daughters in her head, saying that he had hurt them.…
Clark County Eighth Judicial District Court Judge Stefany Miley reversed the murder conviction on Dec. 19, 2017 of Kirstin Blaise Lobato, who had been previously convicted of the 2001 murder of a homeless man and the mutilation and amputation of his penis. Her ruling was the catalyst for Lobato to be freed from prison after…
Immigration scam: Norma Olga Benavidez was convicted and sentenced for victimizing those seeking legal status. Eighth Judicial District Court Judge Stefany Miley sentenced Benavidez to 28 to 72 months in prison. She was also ordered to pay more than $53,000 in restitution to 11 different victims and $3,500 in investigative and prosecution costs. Benavidez told…
Clark County Eighth Judicial District Court Judge Stefany Miley came face to face with a man she ultimately sentenced to life without parole for being found guilty of committing murder with an ax. Harold Montague, 38, agreed to spend the rest of his life in prison when he pleaded guilty on Thursday, May 22, 2014,…
Bird Beheading: A University of California Berkley Law School graduate who drunkenly beheaded exotic bird in front of breakfast diners at Las Vegas hotel escaped a jail sentence, but was sentenced to six months serving in a prison boot camp. According to the Associated Press, Justin Alexander Teixeira, 25, will serve a six-month sentence at…
The Dog Stabber: A Henderson man was sentenced to 14-36 months in prison for stabbing and killing a stranger’s dog on Jan. 14, 2015. District Court Judge Stefany Miley was able to sentence him to that amount of time in prison due to a law known as “Cooney’s Law” — a law that went into…
The Evil Monster: A Las Vegas jury found Thomas Randolph, 62, guilty on two counts of first degree murder in 2008 — one for the murder of his sixth wife, the other for the murder of the hit man he hired to kill her. Cold-blooded would be an understatement. The jury in Judge Stefany Miley’s…