The Associated Press via The Boston Herald.com
LAS VEGAS — The lawyer for a teenager accused of stabbing his jail cellmate to death with a pencil in Las Vegas is questioning why authorities didn’t segregate his client.
Deputy public defender Norm Reed told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that 18-year-old Carl Guilford has “serious mental health issues” and should have been kept away from other inmates at the Clark County Detention Center.
Las Vegas police say they’re reviewing the procedures that allowed them to house Guilford with 29-year-old Francesco Sanfilippo, who died after the early Friday stabbing.
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