Chris Davis wants to end corruption in our courts by shedding light on the problem. Below are some news stories which do just that:  Las Vegas Sun - Oct 22, 2008 - Segment 1 - Chris Davis is vying to replace controversial Judges Donald Mosley who refuses to debate on Face to Face. Jon talks with District Court candidate Chris Davis about his effort to unseat Judge Donald Mosley. Find at: http://www.lasvegassun.com/videos/2008/oct/22/984/. | Las Vegas Sun - Oct 22, 2008 - Segment 2 - Chris Davis continues to talk about his effort to unseat controversial Judge Donald Mosley. Find at: http://www.lasvegassun.com/videos/2008/oct/22/985. | Las Vegas Review-Journal - Oct 19, 2008 - Voters Guide District Court Department 14 - Deputy city attorney Chris Davis is using a political spoof to capture the attention of an Internet audience in his attempt to unseat 29-year veteran judge Donald Mosley. Find at: http://www.lvrj.com/special_sections/voter_guide/31212714.html
| Las Vegas Review-Journal - Sep 12, 2008 - Brian Atkinson Turner, the son of former Clark County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates and stepson of District Judge Lee Gates, accused of child neglect after Las Vegas police found a stash of marijuana and marijuana growing equipment in his home received from Judge Mosley a suspended one-year sentences Thursday and was placed on probation for two years. Find at: http://www.lvrj.com/news/28279414.html | | Las Vegas Sun, Aug 11, 2008 - But since his last re-election, the Nevada Supreme Court upheld sanctions imposed against Judge Mosley by the Commission for Judicial Discipline. "A reasonable, objective observer could conclude that the judge was using his position for personal advantage, thereby diminishing public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary," Chief Justice Miriam Shearing wrote in the 2004 majority opinion. After a gander at Mosley's contribution and expense report, we thought the tough-on-crime jurist may have been using his campaign war chest to beef up his firearms collection. But a quick check with Mark Fierro, Mosley's campaign man, revealed two revolvers purchased with donor money were campaign-related thank you gifts! Find at: http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/final-take/2008/aug/11/incumbents-refuse-debates/ | Las Vegas Review-Journal - Jun 12, 2008 - Judicial candidate Chris Davis doesn't look like a pit bull, but that's certainly the approach he's taking trying to unseat District Judge Don Mosley. This week, he's dotting the valley with 300 signs declaring "Tired of Corruption? ChrisDavisFor Judge.com." Find at: http://www.lvrj.com/news/19817274.html | Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 21, 2008 - The two lowest-scoring male judges [for courtesy are] outgoing Judge Lee Gates and Judge Donald Mosley. Find at: http://www.lvrj.com/news/19131619.html | Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 18, 2008 - Donald M. Mosley, who had one of the lower retention ratings among district judges at 56 percent, is running for re-election against two opponents. . . . One opponent . . . Chris Davis, is a deputy city attorney in North Las Vegas with a background including commercial litigation, civil rights law and clerking in the U.S. District Court for Nevada and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Find at: http://www.lvrj.com/news/19053464.html | Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 18, 2008 - District Court Judge Donald M. Mosley also was singled out as a case study by the Los Angeles Times for giving unspent campaign funds to a girlfriend who he said repaid them. His retention score was 56 percent, down 10 percentage points from two years ago. Find at: http://www.lvrj.com/news/19053379.html | Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar 26, 2008 - The Supreme Court, in the 12-page decision, took Judge Mosley to task for limiting the evidentiary hearing it had ordered in its previous ruling. . . . The court also said it was "troubled" by Mosley's admission that he had not read the court's prior order requiring the evidentiary hearing. The court directed that the case be assigned to a different judge for new trial proceedings. Find at: http://www.lvrj.com/news/17009791.html | Las Vegas Review-Journal, Feb 9, 2008 - Mosley has also been the subject of alleged campaign finance irregularities. A 2006 Los Angeles Times series on Nevada's judicial system reported that Mosley lent $10,000 in 1990 to his then girlfriend, Terry Figliuzzi, who later changed her name to Mosley. Judge Mosley said he borrowed the money from the campaign but returned it. Terry Mosley disputed his accounts, saying that she considered the $10,000 as a gift and never repaid the judge, according to the report. Find at: http://www.lvrj.com/news/15474591.html | | Las Vegas Sun, Jul 24, 2007 - The Supreme Court sent the case back to the District Court [and] specifically ordered a hearing to determine the legality of Dulin's arrest. In May the case fell to District Judge Donald Mosley, who, astonishingly, announced that he had not read the Supreme Court's decision. Before denying Dulin's request for release, Mosley ordered that there be no mention of the Downtown Initiative. How a District Court judge can get away with ignoring the Supreme Court is beyond us . . . . Find at: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2007/jul/24/editorial-is-city-acting-legally/ | Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar 26, 2007 - A Las Vegas chiropractor won't spend a day behind bars for shoving an older man to his death two years ago. . . . "The sentence contained absolutely no penalty whatsoever," Chief Deputy District Attorney Chris Owens said after the hearing. " . . . In imposing the sentence, District Judge Donald Mosley said both the victim and the defendant exercised poor judgment on the day of the altercation at Fabulous Freddy's car wash and gas station at Fort Apache Road and Charleston Boulevard. . . . The sentence outraged Weiss' family and friends, and one relative said the Las Vegas community should be outraged, too. . . . Find at: http://www.lvrj.com/news/7700492.html | Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 20, 2007 - Hardcastle mud-wrestling contest have certainly embarrassed the court, but that's nothing new. Judge Donald Mosley is among District Court's most experienced veterans, but I'd like to have a dollar for every time I've read a story about one of his angry ex-girlfriends. "One Life to Live" doesn't have that many plot twists and broken hearts. . . . Find at: http://www.lvrj.com/news/7598357.html | Las Vegas Review-Journal, Apr 8, 2007 - In a deposition taken for a trial under way in Las Vegas, an attorney says District Judge Donald Mosley hatched a scheme to help his girlfriend avoid foreclosure on her home. In a sworn deposition taken in May 2005, Las Vegas attorney James E. Guesman says Mosley in 2001 suggested payroll records could be falsified to make it appear Mosley's girlfriend, Tawanna Crabb, was employed, although she actually had been out of work for months. Guesman's deposition goes on to say he withdrew as Crabb's bankruptcy lawyer after Mosley suggested that another local attorney could alter employment records to make it appear Crabb worked for the unnamed attorney. . . .When asked why he stopped representing Crabb, Guesman's deposition states, "The reason I was withdrawing is because I didn't want to commit a felony, bankruptcy fraud." Find at: http://www.lvrj.com/news/6925042.html | | Las Vegas Sun, Jun 17, 2006 - Outside the state, the findings of the Times report and this week's responses from Nevada officials drew strong criticism. "The conflicts in many of the cases were blatant," said Michael I. Krauss, a law professor with an expertise in legal ethics at George Mason Law School in Virginia. "If the L.A. Times articles are accurate, these individual judges should be disciplined. In most states, the discipline would be removal from office." But Nevada isn't most states. Sharon Dolovich, a UCLA law and legal ethics professor, said: "People in Nevada need to be troubled by when their district attorney and attorney general's offices aren't willing to investigate when one of the most respected papers in the country raises serious suspicions about corruption in their judicial system." The Times series revealed . . . District Judge Donald Mosley gave $10,000 in unspent campaign funds to his girlfriend - he said it was a loan; she said it was a gift - so she could buy her parents Christmas gifts and show them a good time, the series said. Find at: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2006/jun/17/jaded-justice/ | | Los Angeles Times, Jun 8, 2006 - Las Vegas is a town where District Judge Donald M. Mosley, 59, gave unspent campaign funds to a girlfriend. He called it a loan. She said it was a gift. Canon 7 of the state Code of Judicial Conduct said a judge or a candidate for judicial office "should not use … campaign contributions for purposes unrelated to the campaign." Mosley acknowledged six years ago in a deposition that he provided her with $10,000 of his political money. Mosley said it was restored to his campaign fund, but his girlfriend said she did not repay it. Mosley's campaign fundraising reports leave the matter unresolved. They show that the money was neither withdrawn nor paid back. Find at: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-vegas8jun08,0,3399071,full.story. | Las Vegas Review-Journal, Apr 30, 2006 - Judge Mosley's lowest mark was in freedom from impropriety or its appearance, with 38 percent saying he was less than adequate, possibly reflecting Judicial Discipline Commission rulings against him. . . . Find at: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Apr-30-Sun-2006/news/6730403.html | Las Vegas Review-Journal, Dec 8, 2005 - District Judge Donald Mosley has been given another 11 months to complete an ethics class that the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline had ordered him to take nearly three years ago. . . . Donald Mosley has always disputed the allegations, but in December the Nevada Supreme Court upheld the judge's punishment. . . . Find at: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Dec-08-Thu-2005/news/4684892.html | Las Vegas Review-Journal, Dec 22, 2004 - The Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the $5,000 fine and public censure imposed against District Judge Donald Mosley by the Commission on Judicial Discipline. . . .The discipline was imposed against Mosley for using his judicial position to gain an advantage in a child custody battle. . . . Justices upheld one of the most serious violations against Mosley: that he held a private 90-minute conversation with Joseph McLaughlin, who was awaiting sentencing in his court on kidnapping and other charges. . . . Mosley should have known he should have recused himself from McLaughlin's case, Shearing stated in the opinion. Mosley "had to realize that the McLaughlins would expect to get an advantage in the criminal case by testifying in favor of the judge on a matter important to the judge," she stated. . . . Find at: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Dec-22-Wed-2004/news/25525089.html | | Las Vegas Review-Jounal, Dec 7, 2003 - Mark Roberts, a priest . . ., pleaded guilty in a January plea deal to one count of open and gross lewdness and four counts of child abuse and neglect, after five teenage boys in the Henderson church came forward to describe a series of bizarre, sexually themed rituals to which they had been subjected by the priest. Roberts could have received up to five years in jail, but District Judge Donald Mosley instead sentenced him to three years' probation. . . . Find at: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Dec-07-Sun-2003/opinion/22736580.html | | Las Vegas Sun, Jun 2, 2003 - It took Chief District Judge Gene Porter almost no time at all Friday morning to decide that a woman who had been ordered by Judge Mosley to appear before him was not guilty of contempt of court. The decision was so obvious to Porter that he didn't even wait for the woman's defense attorney to finish her argument. We would have made the same decision. . . . The extreme that Judge Mosley went to reflects badly on his own judgment. We cannot imagine what motivated Judge Mosley to so exceed his authority. The woman was asked a question and she gave an honest answer. Where is the contempt? Find at: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2003/jun/02/editorial-an-honest-answer-is-contempt/ | Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 31, 2003 - A black woman who resisted jury service because she doesn't trust white people or the legal system was ordered to face contempt proceedings this week by District Judge Donald Mosley. But during a Friday morning hearing, Chief District Judge Gene Porter immediately dismissed the contempt case against Kalani Wilburn, saying there was no basis at all for Mosley's order. . . .Gary Peck of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada termed Mosley's contempt order "outrageous and inexcusable." . . . In the past month, the Review-Journal has documented three cases in which Nevada judges have been accused of inappropriately using state contempt law to punish people. . . . Find at: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Nov-13-Thu-2003/news/22577426.html | Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 28, 2003 - Las Vegas Municipal Court judge candidate Denise McCurry on Tuesday criticized Municipal Judge Toy Gregory for accepting a campaign contribution from Jack Galardi, whose topless club was raided by the FBI earlier this month as part of a political corruption probe. . . . Numerous candidates have accepted donations in recent elections from members of the Galardi family, including . . . District Judge Donald Mosley ($5,000). . . . Find at: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/May-28-Wed-2003/news/21412815.html | Las Vegas Review-Journal, Feb 3, 2003 - The Better Government Association, an 80-year-old outfit founded to "fight and expose waste, fraud and corruption in government," has released its Integrity Index, "a measure of the relative strength of existing laws that promote integrity in each of the 50 states. . . . " Who knows how the Silver State would have sized up had the association examined the ethical travails of Michael McDonald, Donald Mosley . . . . Find at: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Feb-03-Mon-2003/opinion/20598775.html |
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