LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Democratic former Las Vegas-area politician is due to learn Wednesday how long he’ll serve in Nevada state prison after being convicted of killing an investigative journalist who wrote articles that criticized his conduct in office and exposed an intimate relationship with a female coworker.
A jury in August convicted Robert Telles of murder for ambushing and killing Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German outside German’s home during Labor Day weekend 2022. The jury set Telles’ sentence at 20 years to life, and a judge on Wednesday can invoke several sentencing enhancements to make the minimum up to 28 years before Telles, 47, becomes eligible for parole.
German, 69, spent 44 years covering crime, courts and corruption in Las Vegas. At the time of German’s death, Telles was the elected administrator of a Clark County office that handles unclaimed estate and probate property cases…