Murphy loses in appeal to collect from Binion’s estate

Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009 | 10:01 a.m.

SUN FILE PHOTO

Sandy Murphy

CARSON CITY – Sandra Murphy, once convicted but later acquitted in the drug overdose death of Las Vegas casino executive Ted Binion, has lost a round in the Nevada Supreme Court to collect on part of his estate.

The court said there are still pending matters in the district court in Clark County in Murphy’s suits. All claims in the district court “must be resolved before an appeal can be taken,” the court said in returning the case to the lower court.

Binion died Sept. 17, 1998, and Murphy filed a claim to the estate in November 1998. She and her boyfriend, Rick Tabish, were convicted in May 2000 of murder and the Supreme Court reversed the convictions.

They were acquitted of murder in a second trial in November 2004. But they were found guilty of burglary and grand larceny involving Binion’s $8 million silver and rare coin collection.

Murphy, who was Binion’s live-in girlfriend, was released from prison in April 2005 but Tabish is still confined.

District Judge J. Charles Thompson in November 2007 dismissed three of the four claims on grounds Murphy did not bring her action within the required three years of the death. There are still other issues to be resolved in the district court before the Supreme Court will rule.

Discussion: 4 comments so far…

By nougat

1/8/09 at 12:07 p.m.

Suggest removal

With all the outstanding claims to be resolved, you have to wonder how Sandy is paying her lawyers. In silver dollars, maybe? Gee, can't imagine where they might have come from. Either that, or maybe she has a new Rick. Lawyer Rick, that is....
By jfnance32

1/8/09 at 1:28 p.m.

Suggest removal

Her second trial was soooo funny.

A reporter ask a dumb jurist why they found her not quilty. They said they thought that Binon OD on his drugs and he gave them to himself. The reporter ask them why there were no finger prints on the pill bottles. The jury said they decided that Binon must have accidently wiped them off with his sleve before he passed out.

LOL...Oh My God!!!!

Too bad, OJ did that get those jokers on his Las Vegas trial.
By spartacus84

1/8/09 at 7:51 p.m.

Suggest removal

A golddigger going after a silver strike. Imagine that.
Her and her jailbird boyfriend win the curse of the Horseshoe.

« Previous Ten Next Ten »

Live chat: Tuesday, noon PST; Chat with Krista Creelman; Problem Gambling Center executive director Krista Creelman will answer questions about gambling addiction from Las Vegas Sun readers from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. ... Submit question