The 2009 case, which I remember well, received a ton of publicity at the time. Brown, now 21, spent seven years incarcerated and was released in 2016.
It appears somebody had entered the residence and killed the woman when Jordan and the daughter of the fiancee went to school.
More details:
But the Supreme Court disagreed, finding that the evidence against him was “insufficient.” The opinion picked apart the evidence, noting, for instance, that experts said the shotgun pellets recovered from Ms. Houk were "consistent" with those in a box of unfired shells found in an armoire, "an unremarkable conclusion."
There was no DNA or fingerprint evidence linking Mr. Brown to the murder, the Supreme Court said. The court found that the evidence did not prove that a shotgun retrieved from the home was the murder weapon, much less that Mr. Brown pulled the trigger.
In fact, the court concluded, the forensic evidence and witness testimony were "consistent with two possibilities: first, that a person or persons unknown entered the house in which [Ms. Houk] was sleeping and shot her to death after [Mr. Brown] and his sister had left for school ...
"Second, the Commonwealth's theory, that, after [Mr. Brown's] father left for work, [Mr. Brown], in full view of [his stepsister], walked upstairs and retrieved a 20-gauge shotgun from his bedroom, walked back downstairs, retrieved a shotgun shell from a box of shells located in an armoire in the victim's bedroom on which the television set she was watching was located, shot the victim in the back of the head as she lay on the bed facing that television, took the shotgun back upstairs and returned it to its former position -- after wiping it clean of any physical evidence caused by the shooting -- then caught the school bus with [his stepsister], and went to school as if it were any other normal morning."
It sounds doubtful he could have done it. The case in terms of Brown's involvement is closed.
You can read the court's decision here.
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No surprise human trafficking would occur in Hof's brothels.
In 2017, the sheriff’s office issued 342 work cards for sex workers to 241 individuals. Just 13 cards were issued to Lyon County residents, while 42 were issued to other Northern Nevada residents, 18 were issued to Southern Nevada residents and 168 cards were issued to out-of-state residents._____
The average sex worker was 31 years old, with the youngest being 18 and the oldest being 72. Roughly 150 workers had less than one year of employment at the brothels – seven years was the longest length of employment. Thirteen of the sex workers were involved in active criminal cases, including possession of a controlled substance, fraud, theft and obstructing and battery on a peace officer.
McNeil said 83 of the sex workers with work cards (30 percent) showed indicators of human trafficking and should have “had an in-depth, thorough, detective-led investigation to determine if they were being trafficked.”
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