Outrage In Pahrump: Stabbing Victim Jailed For Refusing Drug Test

Pahrump and Nye County, which is about 60 miles from Las Vegas has been the scene of some outrageous behavior in the past year. From the Sheriff who jailed a mother who lost her 3 children in a fire to a man getting up to 25 years for spitting (overturned by the Supreme Court of Nevada) to special education teachers and aides charged with child abuse, which still has not gone to trial.
Well, get ready for another round of bizarre Nye County Court news. A stabbing victim, who was stabbed 19 times, was in court to testify in a preliminary hearing for a murder suspect. Apparently, the defense attorney, acting like most most attorneys- acting like a jackass, decided he could not understand what the victim had said, so he threw out the possibility that the victim was on Meth, with no evidence and moved to have the victim drug tested. the stupid ass judge agreed and ordered a drug test and when the victim refused, the stupid ass judge threw the victim, who had been stabbed 19 times and was on pain killers, which is understandable, in jail for contempt of court. We still don't know if the victim is still in jail.
From the Pahrump Valley Times: The surviving victim from a May 1 double stabbing that cost one Pahrump man his life was arrested Friday afternoon in Pahrump Justice Court.
Antionette Bell, 21, was charged with contempt of court for refusing to take a drug test after defense attorneys for her alleged attackers complained that her testimony was increasingly incoherent.
The stunning turn of events occurred at the end of a full day of testimony in the ongoing preliminary hearing for four suspects charged in connection with Bell’s attack and the stabbing death of 56-year-old Michael Frasher.
Troy Jackson, 38, Victoria Garcia, 38, Michael Maxwell, 34, Tiffany Rubio, 28, and Charles Eubanks, 22, all of Pahrump, were arrested on May 2 on charges of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit a crime, battery with a deadly weapon and being under the influence of a controlled substance....
Judge Tina Brisebill ordered Bell to take a drug test after Jackson’s attorney, Harry Gensler, aired his suspicion that Bell was testifying under the influence of drugs, which is a felony in Nevada.
“Are you on meth today? Are you under the influence of anything?” Gensler asked Bell after more than an hour of questioning her.
She said no.
“Would you be willing to submit to a drug test to determine that?” he retorted.
Bell gave an incoherent answer, attempting to explain that the case was about murder and not meth and that she needed to get the conversation back on topic.
http://pvtimes.com/news/on-the-web-stabbing-victim-arrested-in-court-after-refusing-drug-test/
So, without any evidence, the scum defense attorney implied that the victim was under the influence of meth. The scum attorney had no proof of meth use, mind you, but it was thrown out there to make the victim look bad.
Further, to see the slant of the story by the writer of the author, see if this makes sense: Bell gave an incoherent answer, attempting to explain that the case was about murder and not meth and that she needed to get the conversation back on topic.
If the victim in this case, Ms. Bell, gave an incoherent answer, how did the writer of the article understand her to state what she was saying? Seems like a coherent statement to me.
Finally: Still recovering from multiple stab wounds – Bell testified Friday that she was stabbed 19 times, though she testified on June 3 that it was 32 times – she told the judge she had a prescription for Oxycodone and that she’d taken her last pill at 6 a.m.
Gensler made a motion to strike all of Bell’s testimony, both from Friday’s hearing and from her previous appearance on the witness stand.
“She’s certainly exhibited the effects of being under the influence, whatever that may be,” he said. “If she’s not willing to abide by the rules of the court then the court shouldn’t consider any of her testimony.”
The judge said the testimony would stay for now, but arguments for striking it could be entertained later.
Brisebill, after hearing again from Vitto and then from the other defense attorneys, considered another request from Gensler, this time to hold Bell in contempt of court and take her to jail until a blood test could be administered.
The judge granted the motion and ordered Bell into custody.
Bell started wailing in court and was later taken away in handcuffs, as her accused –and bemused – attacker and accomplices watched.
So, a victim of a stabbing, in which she was stabbed 19 or more times and is on pain medication is subjected to abuse by not only the attorney but the judge and prosecutor as well. This apparently is justice in Nye County.