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 Reverses Kirstin Lobato’s Murder Conviction After 16 Years in Prison After Hearing New Expert Testimony
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…
District Court Judge Stefany Miley and the Case of the Immigration Scammer
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…
Judge Stefany Miley, Clark County Eighth Judicial District Court, Faces an Ax Murderer in Court
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,…
District Court Judge Stefany Miley and the Case of Flamingo Hotel Bird Beheading
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…
District Court Judge Stefany Miley and the Case of the Dog Stabber
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…
District Court Judge Stefany Miley and the Case of the “Evil Monster”
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…
District Court Judge Stefany Miley and the Case of the Forehead Shoe Print
A forehead shoe print lead to the arrest of two felons in a Las Vegas homicide case. According to the Clark County Coroner’s Office, Randal Gene Mars, 48, was strangled to death with blunt force head trauma a contributing factor. The police work on the case led investigators to an empty office building near the…
District Court Judge Stefany Miley Sends Elderly School District Employee Couple to Prison
An elderly Las Vegas couple was sentenced by Judge Stefany Miley to eight to 20 years in prison for theft and elderly exploitation. District Judge Stefany Miley sentenced former Clark County School District workers Craig Ballew, 70, and his wife, Ivy Rasmussen, 63, each to serve eight to 20 years in prison. They were found…
District Court Judge Stefany Miley sentences Michael Lee to life without parole for killing toddler
It was a horror story no child should have to go through and no parent should have to live through. Brodie Aschenbrenner, a young boy only two years old, would bruise mysteriously, according to his mother, Arica Foster. She first started to notice this mysterious bruising in April 2011, specifically after he was left with…