Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A Las Vegas jury Wednesday convicted former Vegas politician Robert Telles in the 2022 stabbing murder of veteran Las Vegas investigative reporter Jeff German.
The guilty verdict was read during a video livestream after about 12 hours of jury deliberations. The jury unanimously found the murder was willful, deliberate and pre-meditated.
When the verdict was read, Telles was standing, his hands clasped in front of him and his head bowed.
The judge released the jury and said a penalty phase of the trial would start later Wednesday afternoon.
The seven women, five men jury deliberated for four hours Monday, about six hours Tuesday, and two hours Wednesday, before reaching their verdict.
Telles is a former Clark County Public Administrator charged with stabbing German to death because Telles was angry about articles written by the reporter.
Prosecutors presented some two dozen witnesses, using video and physical evidence, including DNA from under German's fingernails, to prove Telles killed the reporter.