A justice could determine adjacent week whether to hold the transgression lawsuit of Henderson Councilwoman Carrie Cox astatine the petition of Cox’s attorney.
On Tuesday, District Court Judge Nadia Krall volition perceive lawyer Josh Tomsheck’s question to propulsion backmost the commencement of a assemblage proceedings that is scheduled to statesman Oct. 19, according to tribunal records. The question was filed without absorption from prosecutors.
Cox, who is moving for re-election, was indicted successful November 2025 by a Clark County expansive assemblage and faces 1 number of monitoring oregon attempting to show a backstage conversation. The indictment came aft a chap councilwoman, Monica Larson, accused Cox of hiding down a curtain astatine Henderson City Hall aft a status ceremonial for a erstwhile metropolis authoritative and signaling a speech involving Larson and others for much than 8 minutes.
Cox has pleaded not guilty.
Tomsheck said successful a question filed Sept. 17 that helium has an older lawsuit with a conflicting proceedings date. The question states that Cox and prosecutors are “continuing to enactment towards a imaginable solution which would not necessitate a trial.”
The filing did not authorities what that solution would entail. Tomsheck said Friday helium was traveling and was incapable to supply comment.
In February, Krall refused to dismiss the complaint against Cox and and said that a assemblage should determine whether prosecutors person capable grounds to convict Cox.
Tomsheck said astatine a Feb. 24 proceeding that the complaint against Cox is seldom prosecuted astatine the proceedings tribunal level and that Cox’s signaling did not seizure a backstage speech due to the fact that it besides captured others concisely entering and leaving the conversation, arsenic good arsenic “hundreds” of different voices audible successful the background.
Larson filed a lawsuit successful District Court against Cox successful March, alleging Cox inflicted “severe affectional distress” connected Larson by secretly signaling the Jan. 9, 2025, speech astatine Henderson City Hall. Cox’s lawyer successful that case, Milan Chatterjee, said successful a Sept. 15 email that some parties person agreed to intermission the civilian enactment until Cox’s transgression lawsuit has been resolved.
Cox besides filed a lawsuit against Councilman Jim Seebock successful March, accusing him of hitting her aggregate times due to the fact that she refused to enactment his bid to go Henderson’s politician pro tem. Seebock has denied wrongdoing and the lawsuit remains ongoing.
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