On his Veterans in Politics website, Steve Sanson published confidential Clark County Eighth Judicial District Court human resources personnel files regarding action taken with regards to a deputy marshal who often oversaw order and security in Judge Stefany Miley’s (Ret.) courtroom.

We won’t link to the article, because we don’t want to promote it. However, if you’d like to see the published documents we’re referring to here, you can certainly Google it and come up with the specific blog post.

A copy of the 9-page investigation and its conclusions were attached to a letter from Linda Marie Bell, at the time the Eighth Judicial District Court’s Chief District Judge. In her letter accompanying the report, Chief Judge Bell wrote, “ … the recommendation is that [the deputy marshal] received a written reprimand and that he attend de-escalation training to assist with [the deputy marshal’s] conflict resolution skills.”

That letter from Bell, as well as the entire 9-page confidential HR-produced investigative file was published on the VIP website under the following headline:

“How far would a Clark County District Court Judge go, to cover up the corrupt behavior of her Deputy Marshal? Just ask Clark County District Court Judge Stefany Miley!”

This was a hard copy document that was sent to retired Judge Miley informing her of the findings of an investigation into the allegations made against a deputy marshal who worked in her courtroom. There are very few ways that VIP’s Sanson would have been able to acquire the file:

1. Directly from the court’s HR department
2. Directly from Judge Miley herself
3. From someone who had access to Judge Miley’s desk or to the court’s HR director’s official office and stole or copied those papers.

Also, oddly enough, two pages of a bio highlight of Judge Stefany Miley’s promotional literature regarding her elect-ability when she was running a campaign for re-election in 2014 were included in the document dump by Sanson. Here they are:

Was someone, like Steve Sanson and his Veterans in Politics organization out do do harm to Stefany Miley? What would be the purpose of pushing those documents into the public eye? To demean and defame Judge Miley? To embarrass her?

Think about who would release that file. Would it be the court’s HR director? Highly unlikely. Would it be Judge Stefany Miley? Again, highly unlikely, as it casts a shadow over a deputy marshal who worked in her courtroom. Would it be someone who had access to Judge Miley’s office? Say, someone who was trying to impugn her courtroom and her character? Someone like her former husband? Or perhaps someone who was close to her former husband and was a known entity in the courthouse where Judge Miley’s office was and who wouldn’t be given a second thought if he or she were seen lurking about Judge Miley’s office?

Think through those scenarios. What do you think would be most likely?

When this first emerged, Judge Stefany Miley raised concerns with with the court’s HR department. Nothing happened. But that may not be the end of the story. We’ll see how this evolves. Stay tuned.