A Stain on Nevada Justice: Why Silence Is No Longer Acceptable!

A Stain on Nevada Justice: Why Silence Is No Longer Acceptable!

Great State of Nevada
January 12, 2026

How can Nevada allow this?

How can a state that claims to value justice, civil rights, and due process continue to elevate a man whose past prosecutorial conduct has raised profound and unresolved questions—questions involving suppressed evidence, wrongful incarceration, and the death penalty?

These are not minor issues.
These are not technicalities.
These are matters of life, liberty, and irreversible harm.

For more than two decades, a man sat in a maximum-security prison in Nevada, serving over 21 years of his life. His case has long been cited by critics and civil-rights advocates as one involving serious prosecutorial misconduct—specifically, allegations that exculpatory evidence was withheld while the death penalty was on the table.

Instead of accountability, Nevada voters later placed the prosecutor tied to that case on the Clark County District Court bench—and eventually elevated him to the Nevada Supreme Court.

Now, Justice Douglas Herndon has refiled to remain on Nevada’s highest court.

Let that sink in.

Are We Really Going to Allow Another Six Years?

Are Nevadans truly prepared to grant six more years of power to a justice whose past continues to raise unresolved and deeply troubling civil-rights concerns?

Six more years deciding matters of life, liberty, incarceration, and constitutional law.
Six more years shaping precedent.
Six more years without a full public reckoning.

If this conduct would disqualify a prosecutor today, why is it acceptable for a Supreme Court justice?

What Message Does This Send?

What does it say to the wrongfully incarcerated?
To families searching for real justice?
To communities who believe the legal system is supposed to protect constitutional rights—not violate them?

Most disturbing of all:
If these allegations are true—or even partially true—then the real killer may have walked free, while an innocent man lost decades of his life.

Are we truly comfortable with that?

Or do we simply tell ourselves:

“As long as it wasn’t my family.”

Where Is the Nevada ACLU?

And where, exactly, is the Nevada ACLU in this fight?

An organization founded to defend civil liberties, due process, and constitutional rights should be at the forefront when allegations of Brady violations, wrongful incarceration, and death-alty exposure surface—especially when the individual involved now sits on the highest court in the state.

Silence from civil-rights institutions is not neutral.
It raises uncomfortable questions.

If this does not merit public scrutiny, advocacy, or investigation—then what does?

Where Is the Legal Community?

Nevada has approximately 4,300 to 5,700 active attorneys with 15 or more years of experience—fully qualified to run for the Nevada Supreme Court by the 2026 election.

And yet, not one has stepped forward to challenge Justice Herndon.

Not one.

Why?

Is it fear?
Is it political calculation?
Is it complacency?
Or is it a profession that has grown too comfortable protecting its own?

If attorneys cannot challenge a justice over allegations involving wrongful incarceration and death-penalty cases, then what exactly would be serious enough?

This Is a Call to Action

This is not about personal animosity.
This is not about politics.
This is not about ideology.

This is about justice.

If even a shadow of these allegations is credible, then Nevada’s judiciary has a moral obligation to confront them—not bury them beneath titles and robes.

To Nevada attorneys:

If you cannot challenge him for ambition, challenge him for accountability.

If you cannot challenge him for power, challenge him for integrity.

If you cannot challenge him for politics, challenge him for justice.

Because silence is not neutrality.
Silence is endorsement.

And the continued elevation of unresolved prosecutorial misconduct is a stain on the Nevada judiciary—one that will not fade with time.

Justice demands courage.

The question is not whether this issue will be remembered.
The question is:

Who will finally show courage in 2026?


Related Videos Calling for Accountability

Nevada Supreme Court Justice Douglas Herndon must go in 2026!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVvV4hCp9Bg

Highlighting Douglas Herndon, Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court – Las Vegas style!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhxeZxjHTBY&t=31s

Personally delivering a message to Chief Justice Douglas Herndon regarding prosecutorial misconduct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDiwBkbM4_4&t=15s