NATIONAL BRIEFING / NEVADA
The husband of a former Nevada state judge was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for hitting his wife in the head with a frying pan at their home.
Before he was sentenced, Edward Halverson, 49, stunned a Las Vegas courtroom by saying he “clocked” Elizabeth Halverson on Sept. 4 because she threatened to stab him.
“If she wouldn’t have pulled a knife on me and threatened me, I wouldn’t have clocked her,” Halverson said, standing in shackles before the judge. “I defended myself.”
Elizabeth Halverson, who was banned from the bench for mishandling cases and mistreating staff, uses bottled oxygen and a motorized scooter.
Edward Halverson’s self-defense claim contradicted what he told a Clark County District Court judge in October when he pleaded an equivalent of no contest to domestic battery charges. He said at the time that he couldn’t remember hitting his wife.
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