Former Las Vegas Official Sentenced to 28 Years for Murder of Journalist-WEEK IN REVIEW
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🗓️ 27 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.4 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:06.2 | Broadcasting live. |
| 0:07.8 | From the true crime today studios to the world. |
| 0:11.5 | This is Murder in the Morning with Tony Brewski and Stacey Cole. |
| 0:15.1 | From the hit killers podcast. |
| 0:18.6 | Murder in the morning. It's nice when you can watch a case from start to finish. |
| 0:28.6 | And you feel it finished well that justice has been served to an extent. |
| 0:36.6 | I mean, I do wish the sentence was far greater than this, but the judge pushed it to the end, |
| 0:43.6 | the endth degree that they possibly could. |
| 0:47.2 | Former Las Vegas official, you know we're talking about right here. |
| 0:51.6 | Sentence to 28 years for murder of a journalist. Robert Tellis is who we're talking about right here. Sentenced to 28 years for murder of a journalist. Robert Tellis is |
| 0:56.2 | who we're talking about. The former Democratic official in Las Vegas, he has been sentenced to at least |
| 1:01.6 | 28 years in Nevada State Prison for the murder of Jeff German, an investigative journalist |
| 1:07.2 | for the Las Vegas Review Journal, who was killed in 2022. |
| 1:11.3 | Tellis, whose 47 was convicted in August of first degree murder with a sentence enhanced |
| 1:16.5 | by the judge due to his use of a deadly weapon and the age of his victim, who was 69 at the |
| 1:22.6 | time of his death. |
| 1:24.3 | Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson speaking after the sentencing noted the |
| 1:29.5 | severity of the sentence saying, quote, the judge couldn't sentence him to any more time. Wolfson |
| 1:34.7 | remarked, she gave him the maximum. The sentence includes a minimum term of 20 years to life extended by |
| 1:41.5 | an additional eight years due to the aggravating factors. |
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