County of Clark issued the following announcement.
The Police Fatality Public Fact-finding Reviews to look into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Matthew Patton and Nathaniel Sironen have been scheduled for later this month.
The reviews will begin at 9 a.m. and be held in Commission Chambers at the Clark County Government Center, 500 S. Grand Central Parkway in downtown Las Vegas.
The review of Patton’s death will be held on Monday, July 26. It will be presided over by Hearing Officer Mandy McKellar. Terry Jackson will serve as the ombudsman, and Chief Deputy District Attorney Bill Flinn will represent the District Attorney’s Office for the review. Patton died during a confrontation with law enforcement in September.
The review of Sironen’s death will be held on Tuesday, July 27. It will be presided over by Hearing Officer William Jansen. Michael Troiano will serve as the ombudsman, and Chief Deputy District Attorney Agnes Botelho will represent the District Attorney’s Office for the review. Sironen died during a confrontation with law enforcement in December.
A fact-finding review is held when a police-involved death occurs and the District Attorney’s Office preliminarily determines that no criminal prosecution of the officer or officers involved is appropriate. Presiding officers and ombudsmen are selected by the county manager from lists approved by the County Commission. The ombudsman represents the public and the deceased’s family during the review.
During a review, representatives from the District Attorney’s Office present witnesses and make a presentation of the essential facts surrounding the police-involved death. After the prosecutors finish their presentation, the presiding officer and ombudsman may also ask questions. The procedure for questioning witnesses is informal and intended to provide the public with relevant information about the use of force. Members of the public observing the review may submit proposed written questions to the presiding officer on forms available at the review. The presiding officer may ask the proposed questions, revise them or decline to ask them if he deems them “redundant, irrelevant or an abuse of the review process,” according to County ordinance. At the end of the review, no formal determination about the manner or cause of death is rendered.
CCTV will carry the entirety of the proceeding. Clark County Television is available in the Las Vegas area on Channel 4/1004 on Cox cable and on CenturyLink on Channels 4 and 1004 as well as in Laughlin on Channel 14 via Suddenlink. Live streaming of CCTV programming is available at https://www.youtube.com/user/ClarkCountyNV/live. CCTV is also available in Boulder City on Channel 4 and in Moapa Valley on Digital Channel 50.3. One may watch CCTV on streaming devices such as Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV via the YouTube app.
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