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Nevada Sheriff Defies Judge to Keep 35-Arrest Violent Offender Behind Bars

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/03/16/nevada-sheriff-defies-judge-to-keep-35-arrest-violent-offender-behind-bars-n4950712

Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill's decision has sparked a national debate about public safety and the limits of judicial authority. McMahill refused to release Joshua Sanchez-Lopez from jail despite an order from Justice Court Judge Eric Goodman.

Sanchez-Lopez faces charges for battery causing substantial bodily harm, another entry in a long criminal record of 35 prior arrests, including violent offenses.

Judge Goodman authorized release with electric monitoring and a $5,000 bail, an order rejected by McMahill to keep Sanchez-Lopez in custody, arguing that the risk to the community outweighed the court's directive.

Sanchez-Lopez's record stretches across years of encounters with law enforcement. Charges have included robbery, assault, theft, and drug crimes. Police reports tied the most recent arrest to a violent attack that left a victim with serious injuries requiring hospital treatment and charges for battery with substantial bodily harm. Despite his history and the latest charges, Judge Goodman still permitted release under electronic monitoring conditions.

This could get reeeeeeally messy! Obviously, the judge's order is legally binding. Equally or more obviously releasing a guy with a record of violent and felonious offenses longer than the judge's robe is moronic and endangers the public.

Hypothetically, the "proper" way to address this would have been to appeal the decision, BUT during the time for the appeal to be heard and decided, the dude would be out on the streets doing whatever other crimes appealed to him. The sheriff set up a train of possible events in which the judge would find him in contempt of court ... but the law enforcement agency that would be ordered to jail him and release the thug is commanded by the sheriff.

What would the judge do if the whole sheriffs department defied him? The judge, AFAIK, does not have authority over state-level law enforcement.

Sounds like a class full of future barista's not STEM majors .

Unless to satisfy a graduation requirement, her arts course sounds like something few STEM majors would willingly take. I've worked in "T" for mumble mumble decades. 19th Century English Lit would have been more to my taste.

Reminds me of being an inquisitive child and asking my parents or grandparents a question about a word or fact? They'd immediately say "the dictionary is over on the shelf, so is the encyclopedia, so why don't you learn"?

My parents didn't have to give me that "invitation". 1961 or 1962 edition World Book.

Sounds like a class full of future barista's not STEM majors .

A product of liberal controlled education.

I supposed that it is possibly that what Coventina presented were so distorted or abstract that the student didn't recognize the examples as human. Or maybe the examples were visibly obviously male or female, and the student was afraid of the consequences of pointing out those facts.

It's more likely, sadly, that the college student is lazy, unmotivated, and nearly illiterate (i.e. (s)he thought Fun With Dick and Jane was a porno with Spot and Puff doing bestiality).