Veteran trial attorney seeks to unseat Clark County DA

Former Nevada legislator and seasoned proceedings lawyer Ozzie Fumo announced Thursday that helium volition tally for Clark County District Attorney successful the 2022 election.

Fumo is seeking to unseat incumbent Steve Wolfson, who has served arsenic the county’s apical authoritative since 2012, erstwhile helium was appointed to the position. Last year, the 55-year-old Fumo near his presumption successful the Nevada Assembly to tally an unsuccessful run for a spot connected the Nevada Supreme Court.

“The District Attorney’s bureau is simply a presumption from which tremendous alteration tin beryllium made,” Fumo said successful a property release. “If elected, it volition beryllium my extremity to marque Clark County a safer, healthier, and much conscionable spot for our full community.”

Fumo has practiced instrumentality successful Las Vegas since 1996, and is besides an adjunct prof astatine UNLV’s Boyd Law School.

No different candidates person announced a bid to tally against Wolfson, though determination is simply a March deadline for filing successful the June Democratic superior race.

Wolfson announced helium would beryllium seeking re-election successful August.

Fumo said Thursday that accrued enactment from others successful the ineligible assemblage encouraged him to run. He criticized Wolfson’s administration.

“If you’re the privileged and you hap to cognize (Wolfson), you get the sweetheart deal,” Fumo said.

Wolfson did not instantly respond to petition for remark connected Thursday.

Fumo said helium would similar to absorption connected restorative justness policies and reducing recidivism rates done programs specified arsenic the specialty attraction courts.

“You could enactment truthful overmuch much effort into programs that outgo a tenth of what incarceration does,” helium said.

In Wolfson’s August announcement, helium vowed to chopped down connected a backlog successful transgression courts that person accrued during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 67-year-old incumbent besides pointed to a bid of programs created nether his watch, including a Conviction Integrity Unit, created successful 2016 to reappraisal claims of existent innocence, on with diversion programs for radical earlier and aft they person been charged with low-level, nonviolent crimes.

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