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Sandy Murphy sues Silver State, seeks punitive damages
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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Updated: Dec. 16, 2009 | 6:13 p.m.
Sandy Murphy, the one-time girlfriend of late gaming executive Ted Binion, has filed a lawsuit against the state alleging malicious prosecution.
Murphy, representing herself, was convicted along with Rick Tabish of murder in the September 1998 death of Binion, who authorities initially believed died of a drug overdose in his home.
But two days later, sheriff’s deputies caught Tabish and two other men digging up Binion’s silver stash near Pahrump.
Tabish and Murphy were convicted in 2000 of murdering Binion in a conspiracy to steal his silver and prevent him from cutting Murphy out of his will. They each received sentences requiring them to spend at least 22 years in prison, but those convictions were overturned in 2003 by the Nevada Supreme Court.
A second jury in 2004 acquitted them of the murder charges but upheld the charges in connection with the silver theft.
Murphy was released for time served.
Last year, the Supreme Court refused to reconsider an earlier decision upholding her conviction on charges related to the theft.
In her lawsuit filed late Tuesday, which lists the state as the sole defendant, Murphy claims she is the victim of false arrest and imprisonment and malicious prosecution.
She seeks at least $100,000 on those claims and $50,000 in punitive damages.
Murphy argues that former Nye County Sheriff Wade Lieseke told former Nye County detective Steve Huggins that Tabish had his authority to take the silver bullion and rare coin collection, valued at around $7 million.
Lieseke has denied the allegation.
Murphy did not return a phone call seeking comment placed to her job in Laguna Beach, Calif.
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Both her and Tabish are murderers and liars. She needs money? Tell her to take her clothes off. Then drop.
It figures she is suing the state... She must be broke as that job she supposedly has cant support her.... Maybe she should find better clients to HO herself out to so she doesnt have to waste the courts time with a stupid lawsuit that she cant even thinkis worth her time.... Anyways she should be in the million range and not the hundred thousand... Goes to show herself as she is....CHEAP HO!!!!!
Amazing.
She murders a guy by suffocating him with a pillow, when he wouldn't die from being force fed all those drugs.
THEN SHE GETS AWAY WITH IT!
Many strippers are very good people. But, there are bad ones. I guess once a bad stripper, always a bad stripper.
It's always about the money with Sandy. Always has been. Continues to be so..
Amazing.
She murders a guy by suffocating him with a pillow, when he wouldn't die from being force fed all those drugs.
THEN SHE GETS AWAY WITH IT!
Many strippers are very good people. But, there are bad ones. I guess once a bad stripper, always a bad stripper.
It's always about the money with Sandy. Always has been. Continues to be so.
"Murphy, representing herself"
That pretty much says it all. When you can not get an attorney in this city to take a case you know you have nothing to work with.
Hopefully when she loses the state will go after her for wasting the taxpayers money. Again.
Still trying to live off others.