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Monday, Dec. 22, 2008 | 3:07 p.m.
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CARSON CITY – The Nevada Supreme Court has dismissed a suit by a man who sued his ex-wife and a Mesquite casino in connection with the stabbing death of his 3-year-old daughter in January 2003.
The court said David Cowan failed to serve the suit on his ex-wife, Tamara Bergerson, and on the CasaBlanca Resort & Casino in the required time and that the complaint was faulty.
In his suit, Cowan claimed negligence on grounds that his ex-wife was in the casino with her boyfriend playing slot machines when their daughter, Kristyanna Cowan, was stabbed to death and her 10-year-old sister, Brittney, was critically injured in their trailer home.
Beau Maestas and his sister, Monique Maestas, have been convicted in the killing of the child and the wounding of her sister because they were angry that the mother had sold them salt for $125 and told them it was methamphetamine.
Beau Maestas, now 25, was sentenced to death in 2006 and is confined to prison in Ely. Monique Maestas, now 22, is serving a life term with parole at the Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center in Clark County and will be able to apply for release in 2023.
The mother, Tamara Bergerson, now 39, was sentenced to four to 12 years for child abuse and neglect. Her boyfriend, Robert J. Schmidt, received a two- to 10-year sentence on the same charges.
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