Las Vegas Sun

March 18, 2024

Kafka in Vegas: A slain circus star, a dubious confession, and a prosecutorial misconduct epidemic

After trapeze artist-turned-poodle trainer Gerard Soules was stabbed to death in a Las Vegas trailer park in 1992, prosecutors charged his one-time fling, Fred Steese, with murder.

But there was clear evidence that Steese wasn’t even in Nevada at the time.

Here's what his Kafka-esque journey through the justice system says about the state of American justice.

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