Douglas County’s district attorney filed a criminal complaint Monday accusing a Salvadoran immigrant of killing two women in Gardnerville after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled he can't be tried for those crimes simultaneously in Washoe County.
FILE - In this May 20, 2019, file photo, Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, from El Salvador, appears in Washoe District Court in Reno, Nev. Douglas County's district attorney filed a criminal complaint Monday, Oct. 11, 2021, accusing Martinez-Guzman of killing two women there after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled those crimes can't be tried in neighboring Washoe County where he's accused of fatally shooting a Reno couple during the same two-week stretch in 2019. RENO, Nev.
Douglas County District Attorney Mark Jackson initiated the new process with a complaint filed in East Fork Justice Court in Minden south of Carson City charging Martinez Guzman with the deaths of Connie Koontz and Sophia Renken. In a 5-2 decision on Sept. 30, the Supreme Court justices agreed with Martinez Guzman’s public defenders that he is entitled to separate trials.
Prosecutors had argued that Nevada law allowed for one trial because the facts in the cases were “intertwined,” including evidence showing Martinez Guzman shot all four victims with the same gun he stole from the Davids’ residence.
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