Why did Melanie Andress-Tobiasson commit suicide? What happened to the Ex Las Vegas judge? dies at 53

A Las Vegas judge Melanie Andress-Tobiasson who resigned to escape an ethics hearing commits suicide. Let’s see why she commits suicide and What happened to the Ex Las Vegas judge in detail.

What happened to Melanie Andress-Tobiasson?

Before facing an ethics hearing, 53-year-old Melanie Andress-Tobiasson resigned as justice of the peace. KLAS-TV LAS VEGAS- A troubled former Las Vegas judge who left the bench in 2021 committed suicide on Friday, according to individuals who spoke to the news channel Now Investigators.

Prior to a hearing on ethical complaints, 53-year-old Melanie Andress-Tobiasson retired from her position as a justice of the peace in Las Vegas. Her ethics hearing was set to begin in 2021. Her resignation was part of an agreement that saw the trial dismissed.

Tobiasson was the subject of a nearly two-year investigation by Nevada’s Judicial Discipline Commission. In connection with asking police to look into a clothes company where her daughter worked, she was charged with a number of offenses. It was a front for prostitution, according to the former judge.

Why did Tobiasson commit suicide?

Tobiasson said she was trying to protect her daughter from sex trafficking when she complained that the Las Vegas Metro Police Department ignored information she presented in an interview with the 8 News Now Investigators.

In the lawsuit, it is stated that Tobiasson’s phone was afterward tracked by police who claimed she was obstructing an investigation into vice.

The 8 News Now Investigators discovered that the FBI was looking into the unit concurrently with its own probe. Without filing charges against any officers, they later concluded the case.

Tobiasson attended Bishop Gorman High School and graduated there. Before being appointed to the bench in 1999, she worked for the Clark County District Attorney’s Office. Tobiasson was elected again several times.

Who was Melanie Andress-Tobiasson?

Judge Melanie Andress-Tobiasson presided over the Nevada Las Vegas Township Justice Court. She ran for office again in 2018 and left the court in 2021.

Tobiasson, 53, a Bishop Gorman High School alumnus, was born in Las Vegas. She graduated from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, with a law degree, and she obtained her Nevada legal practice license in 1993.

Tobiasson worked for the Clark County District Attorney’s office before assuming his position on the court as a justice of the peace pro tem in 1999. In 2009, she was chosen to sit on the Las Vegas Justice Court bench.

She claimed that her employment was “my passion, my fun, and my love.” And because they were being vindictive, they once again denied me the chance to announce my resignation in a way that respected my career. This was their final opportunity to shoot me and harm me.

In response to inquiries regarding vulgarity off the bench and administrative complaints involving court clerks, the commission declined to suspend Tobiasson and fellow Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Amy Chelini at a hearing in late 2019. However, the panel’s inquiry into Tobiasson continued.

Additionally, Tobiasson disclosed on Friday that she spent seven weeks negotiating her resignation contract. She acknowledged that she had not made an easy choice. “But I knew it was the right choice since they wouldn’t let me be at peace as long as I was on the bench,” he continued. Tobiasson responded, “I’m going to do whatever I want for the rest of my life,” when asked what she would be doing after getting off the bench.

Melanie Tobiasson Resignation

Los Angeles Lawyer of the peace Melanie Tobiasson has decided to step down rather than defend herself against ethics allegations that she unlawfully got engaged in a double homicide probe and had ties to a member of organized crime.

A deal with the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline calls for her to retire from the bench the following week. The agreement said that Tobiasson “also stipulates that after leaving her judicial office she would not seek or accept judicial office in the state of Nevada at any time in the future, nor will she undertake or execute any task with the definition of “Judge”.

Tobiasson claimed on Friday that she had not gotten a copy of the signed contract and that she had been informed the commission would not publish her agreement until next week.

I’m pretty upset about it, and it kind of caught me off guard,” she remarked. It was agreed that they would wait until the 7th to release this, so when she found out that it had been posted this morning, she expressed her severe disappointment.  Sincerely, I believe that they are using this as yet another chance to harm me and prevent me from making a statement before them.

Paul Deyhle, the executive director of the commission, did not immediately return phone calls on Friday. After the judge formally submits her resignation, the commissioners will name a replacement, according to Clark County spokesman Erik Pappa.

A special election for inhabitants of Las Vegas Township, which is a little bigger than the city of Las Vegas, might also be held by the commissioners.

Several accusations

The commission claimed that Tobiasson urged detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department to look into a clothing store where her daughter worked because she thought it was a front for an illegal club where teenagers engaged in drinking, drug use, and prostitution. This led to a long list of accusations against Tobiasson.

The panel claimed that Tobiasson disregarded the law, did not uphold it, and let familial obligations and relationships sway her decisions. To malign the judge, attorneys for Tobiasson have charged the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline with violating its own rules and procedures.

When in reality, Tobiasson claimed, “What I did was appropriate and should be appreciated, I have been attacked, lied about, and accused of misconduct.” “They have tormented and lied about me for three years,” the resignation statement reads.

The bottom line is that I didn’t resign because of anything I did wrong, she continued. I quit because I was accused of acting in perfectly appropriate ways. When I phoned the police to report a crime, nothing was done. Never have I meddled with the inquiry.

Tobiasson said that she had incurred legal costs totaling almost $600,000 to refute the accusations. The commission was to have a trial beginning on May 17.

Tobiasson’s attorneys have cited several factual inaccuracies in the charges brought against her in an ongoing dispute with the commission. At one point, cops began following Tobiasson’s phone when Metro opened its probe into the judge.

Despite Metro’s determination that the judge had not broken any laws, officers discovered that Tobiasson had spoken to or attempted to speak with a guy by the name of Anthony Danna between July 2017 and December 2017. Danna was described by the panel as a “known and established organized crime figure.”

Tobiasson’s attorneys countered that a mobster with such a name passed away in 1984. Additionally, according to the commission, Tobiasson absolved Danna of domestic assault allegations after she later texted the judge as he eluded authorities in another case.

However, it appears from online court documents that Danna’s charges were dropped. According to the court’s website, the case was dismissed for “state not progressing.”

This is an ongoing investigation case, check back later for updates.

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