Representing Vagos member Ernesto Gonzalez, attorney Michael Kennedy told jurors that two Hells Angels members shot first and were "stomping" a man at gunpoint when Gonzalez shot Jeffrey Pettigrew dead.
An August 2017 re-trial date has been set for the ex-motorcycle gang leader charged with killing a rival gang member during a casino shootout nearly five years ago.
A second trial is moving forward for the man accused of shooting and killing a rival biker club member at the Sparks Nugget in 2011. The Nevada Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction for Ernesto Gonzalez, and now a new trial is about to get started, once the prosecution and defense can settle a small dispute.
More than five months after the Nevada Supreme Court overturned his murder conviction, a judge has set an arraignment for an ex-motorcycle gang leader to be tried a second time for killing a rival gang member during a casino shootout in 2011.
Nevada's Supreme Court is being asked to clarify state laws on self-defense and defense of others as it considers revisiting its recent reversal of a high-profile murder conviction in a Sparks casino shootout between rival biker gangs in 2011.