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18 arrested under new domestic violence law
Published Thursday, July 23, 2009 | 10:47 a.m.
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009 | 2:56 p.m.
Metro Police have wasted no time enforcing a new law that went into effect July 1 that increases certain domestic violence penalties.
Assembly Bill 164, approved by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Jim Gibbons on May 6, revised a battery charge involving strangulation.
Since the law went into effect, Metro Police Lt. Chris Carroll, of the Metro Police Domestic Violence Detail, said 18 people have been arrested based on the new charge.
The bill amended Nevada revised statutes to increase penalties for domestic violence and battery involving strangulation, making it a category C felony, Carroll said. The maximum fine for each charge is $15,000.
The bill was introduced in the Assembly on Feb. 12 and passed both houses of the Legislature on May 1.
Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto supported the bill. Assemblyman William Horne, D-Las Vegas, chief sponsor of the bill, said he was approached by the attorney general to introduce the enhanced punishment under domestic violence statutes.
Horne said Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert, R-Reno, joined him in cosponsoring the bill.
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So I guess you get choked to near death, but you survive, so the penalties increase. What happens when you beat the old lady like a rented mule, but you didn't strangle her? Out in 90 days? We live in redneck hell....
The old ladies should arm themselves with NAA .22 magnum mini-revolvers. They are small and ladylick but will scramble someone's egg with a temple-shot if they get close enough to try to strange you.
How is strangulation worse than say a golf club to the head? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad for any additional penalties they can tack on to domestic violence, I'm just morbidly curious how they determine that one form is worse than another. Nice picture!
Did Metro waterboard these deserving individuals before taking the mug shots? The one named Colin looks like Mike Tyson was chewing on his right ear.
Did these 2 women seriously try to strangle someone? I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I have to admit I was shocked to see females!
How is it so hard to believe that women would try to strangle a man? Women have been known to become irrational just as any man out there that cant control his anger, plenty of women are off the deep end too. And if the man they are with is passive or just doesn't want to hurt her, guess what, she has a green light. I think there are more men than women that get violent, but you would be surprised at how many women are violent. It goes back to "why do you stay?"
Of course laws for domestic violence should be heavily enforced but for men and women alike. I have a friend that is ridiculously scorn by her ex and has spent the last several years trying to make him pay. Well, she found the perfect tool. A "false police report". I'll admit he did break her heart, but to use the law to play a "revenge game" is wrong in so many ways and the law should reflect that to send the message that domestic violence is serious and the offender will be punished but misuse of the law for personal gratification should hold serious consequences as well. The tax payers should not have to pay for childish misuse of our law enforcement.