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Friday, June 19, 2009 | 5:18 p.m.
CARSON CITY – Joseph Antonetti, serving a life term without the possibility of parole for the murder of a 21-year-old woman in Las Vegas, is persistent.
The Nevada Supreme Court has rejected his latest appeal on his conviction of trying to escape from the Clark County jail while awaiting trial.
The Nevada Supreme Court turned down Antonetti’s claim he received ineffective assistance of an attorney at trial. He was sentenced to an additional five years in prison on the escape charge.
He and three other inmates smuggled in rope, wrenches, hacksaws and hacksaw blades into a cell on the ninth floor of the county jail. But the escape effort failed.
The Supreme Court previously rejected the petition of Antonetti on his first degree murder conviction in the shooting death of Mary Amina.
But the court ordered District Judge Kenneth Cory to hear the petition of Antonetti, convicted of wounding his roommate, Suzanne Smith, in 2003. The 16-40 year term for the shooting of Smith is on top of the life sentence and the five years for escape.
Antonetti, 33, is serving his consecutive sentences at the High Desert State Prison in Clark County.
This story has been edited to correct the nature of the association between Smith and Antonetti.
JUST A SMALL CORRECTION HERE PLEASE. I AM SUZANNA SMITH AND THIS LOW LIFE PSYCHO PUNK WAS NEVER EVER EVER MY LIVE IN BOY FRIEND OR VICE VERSA.....GET IT RIGHT LAS VEGAS SUN!!!!!! I LET HIM STAY IN MY SPARE BED ROOM RENT FREE BECAUSE I WAS IMPRESSED WITH HIS ARTISTIC TALENT AND WANTED TO GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO DEVELOP HIS ART AND POSSIBLY DO SOMETHING WITH HIS LIFE. I FELT LIKE SOCIETY HAD NEVER GIVEN THIS IDIOT A CHANCE TO BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE THUG HE WAS. HE CAME FROM A MOTHER WHO WAS A DRUG ADDICTED PROSTITUTE AND A FATHER WHO WAS A PIMP AND SHOT HIM UP WITH CRYSTAL METH AT THE AGE OF 12. I AM NOT MAKING EXCUSES FOR HIM OR THE FACT THAT THIS GUY TRIED TO KILL ME BECAUSE I ASKED HIM TO MOVE OUT OF MY SPARE BED ROOM AFTER FINDING OUT THAT HE WAS NOT RIGHT IN THE HEAD AND COULD BE DANGEROUS. THIS HUMAN BEING SHOT AN UNARMED WOMAN IN THE BACK OVER AN ARGUMENT THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO WIN THEN CONTINUED TO SHOOT HER 8 MORE TIMES....AND I DIDN'T EVEN FALL. JUST HAD TO LET LAS VEGAS KNOW THIS WAS NOT MY BOYFRIEND. NOT EVER!!!!! EWWWWW!!!!! PLEASE POST A CORRECTION LV SUN. AND NEXT TIME RESEARCH YOUR FACTS. P.S. THE NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF PRISONS PROTECTS PUNKS LIKE THIS BY LETTING THEM GO TO PROTECTIVE CUSTODY....WHO PROTECTED ME?
DOES IT SEEM LIKE I'M YELLING WHEN I TYPE WITH ALL CAPS?
She has a right to yell. There are incorrect "facts" in the article about her. An apology should be issued by the author.
DAMN RIGHT I'M YELLING AND I'D LIKE THE LAS VEGAS SUN TO ISSUE A CORRECTION OR I WILL KEEP YELLING ALL THE WAY TO THE COURT HOUSE. I'VE ALREADY CONTACTED MY LAWYER. I DO NOT NEED ANYONE TO ASSOCIATE ME AS BEING THE "LIVE IN GIRLFRIEND" OF THIS SOCIAL OUTCAST.
I WILL BE IN THE COURT ROOM WHEN District Judge Kenneth Cory HEARS HIS PETITION FOR A NEW TRIAL. AND I'LL BE THERE THE NEXT TIME AND THE TIME AFTER THAT AND THE TIME AFTER THAT. IF WE ARE 80 YEARS OLD AND HE COMES UP FOR PAROLE I WILL BE THERE WITH MY OXYGEN TANK AND MY WALKER TO MAKE SURE HE NEVER SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY. AS FAR AS PROTECTIVE CUSTODY GOES, HE HAS TO GO TO THE DOCTOR AND CROSS THE YARD SOMEDAY.