A thoughtful jury had already weighed the evidence and made that decision a day earlier. All that was left was to listen to the family members of the victim and his killer and then determine the appropriate punishment.

Robert Telles hung his head, shaking it slightly from side to side as the guilty verdict was read Wednesday in Clark County District Court.

A jury began deliberating Monday in the trial of a former Las Vegas-area Democratic politician accused of killing an investigative journalist.

Robert Telles won't return again to the witness stand before a jury panel of seven men and seven women is pared to 12

Robert Telles testified earlier that he ignored several text, email and voice messages while he was at home, went for a walk and then to a gym the day Jeff German was killed.