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Nevada Supreme Court orders separate trials in four killings

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By SCOTT SONNER
Associated Press

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court says a Salvadoran immigrant accused of killing four people during a string of crimes in 2019 must be tried separately in both counties where the slayings took place. Prosecutors argued that Wilber Ernesto Martinez Guzman should be tried for all four killings in Washoe County, where a grand jury indicted him on four murder and five burglary charges. But justices on Thursday agreed with Martinez’s public defenders that he is entitled to two separate trials because the grand jury in Washoe County lacked proper jurisdiction to indict him for crimes in Douglas County. He’s accused of killing a Reno couple and two women in rural Gardnerville with the same gun.

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