JOHNSON v. SHERIFF, CLARK COUNTY

No. 7870.

532 P.2d 1037 (1975)

John Wesley JOHNSON, Jr., Appellant, v. SHERIFF, CLARK COUNTY, Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

March 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Daniel Markoff, Las Vegas, for appellant.

George E. Holt, Dist. Atty., and Joel M. Cooper, Deputy Dist. Atty., Las Vegas, Robert List, Atty. Gen., Carson City, for respondent.


OPINION

PER CURIAM:

A Las Vegas Police Officer heard from an undisclosed informant that John Wesley Johnson, Jr., was willing to pay a hired assassin $60,000.00.

The officer, feigning that he was a "hit man for hire," from out of state, had several telephone conversations with a person who represented himself to be Johnson. Details of the proposed killing were discussed; however, the two men never met face to face. Instead, the officer recruited...

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