The Nevada Supreme Court has denied a Reno man's latest bid to get off death row for the 2008 rape and killing of a 19-year-old college student that became one of the highest-profile cases in the city's history.
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A Nevada state court has now denied a second appeal from convicted murderer and death row inmate James Biela.
A judge in Reno has refused to grant a new trial for a man sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old college student nearly eight years ago.
A lawyer for a Reno man convicted of raping and killing a 19-year-old college student in 2008 is attacking the DNA evidence in a last-ditch effort to get James Biela off death row.
Convicted murderer James Biela was back in court for the second day of an evidence hearing to determine whether he should get a new trial.
An evidentiary hearing is underway in Reno for convicted killer James Biela, who is asking for a new trial.
The Reno judge handling a death row inmate's latest appeal has scheduled two weeks of evidentiary hearings next month to consider whether there's grounds to grant James Biela a new trial in the 2008 killing of 19-year-old Brianna Denison and rape of two others.
An attorney for convicted killer James Biela says his client plans to request a new trial. A post-conviction hearing was held Thursday in Second Judicial District Court.
District Attorney Dick Gammick is busy these days packing up his office and getting ready for retirement. He leaves office next month and his service in Northern Nevada has spanned 40 years, with the last two decades serving as Washoe County's District Attorney.