(David Ferrara of Las Vegas Review-Journal) – Did politics come into play when it came time to decide if criminal charges were in order for Meghan Anne Smith, a Democrat who tried last fall to run for the Legislature in a district where she was ineligible to be a candidate?
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson, a Democrat, says no — though his office took a pass while the state’s new Republican attorney general pursued the case.
The Las Vegas police criminal intelligence unit first presented their case to Wolfson, who decided that he could not prove a crime, even though a judge had already ruled that Smith “willfully filed a declaration knowing that the declaration of candidacy or acceptance of candidacy contained a false statement.”
“We reviewed the case,” Wolfson said Thursday. “We determined that we didn’t feel we could prove this crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Metro investigators then took their findings to Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who won election last fall.
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