Jeremy Joseph Strohmeyer

It was supposed to be a brief stop at the Primadonna casino, 43 miles south of Las Vegas, but one poker game led to another. By 3 a.m. May 25, 1997, Jeremy Strohmeyer and David Cash were tired of hanging around the arcade, waiting for David's dad. Bored, the two 18-year-olds decided to urinate on two coin-operated games. David chose Big Bertha, whose polka-dot dress flared when players hurled balls into her gaping red mouth. Jeremy selected a helicopter game. Then a wall socket.

A Nevada District Court judge Wednesday rejected Jeremy Strohmeyer's request to recant his guilty plea in the 1997 casino bathroom slaying of 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson, saying the Long Beach resident benefited from the "A-Team of legal counsel." Judge Joseph T. Bonaventure, noting that Strohmeyer testified Tuesday that he wanted justice in the case, said that the high school student was clearly guilty and was clearly defended adequately by his lawyers, Leslie Abramson and Richard Wright.

Murder suspect Jeremy Joseph Strohmeyer was arraigned Wednesday on a governor's warrant charging him with the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson last month in Nevada. But Strohmeyer's attorney, Leslie Abramson, blocked the 18-year-old's immediate extradition to Las Vegas by announcing her intention to file a motion challenging the warrant signed by Gov. Pete Wilson.

Jeremy Strohmeyer told a judge Tuesday that he was bullied by his defense attorney into pleading guilty in 1997 to the rape and murder of 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson in a casino restroom, and that he now wants to stand trial for the murder.

A Los Angeles judge Wednesday ordered that Jeremy Joseph Strohmeyer be extradited to Nevada on a governor's warrant that charges the teenager as a fugitive in the sexual assault and murder of 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson. During a proceeding that lasted only several minutes, Superior Court Judge Michael Kellogg paved the way for authorities to return Strohmeyer, 18, of Long Beach to Clark County as soon as circumstances permit. He remains in custody at the Men's Central Jail.

The attorney for Jeremy Joseph Strohmeyer, the teenager charged with killing 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson, charged Wednesday that Las Vegas authorities coerced an alleged confession from her client and have engaged in a "deceitful" campaign to win a conviction before a trial.

The Long Beach teenager accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 7-year-old girl in a Nevada casino bathroom last May testified Thursday that police repeatedly lied in their accounts of his confession and ignored his pleas for an attorney.

A Las Vegas judge ruled Tuesday that a jury will hear the confessions of a Long Beach teenager accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 7-year-old girl in a Nevada casino bathroom last May. Jeremy Joseph Strohmeyer, 19, testified in a pretrial hearing last week that his requests for an attorney had gone unheeded and that he had never been advised of his rights before making statements to authorities. But U.S. District Judge Don Chairez disagreed.

Teenager Jeremy Joseph Strohmeyer pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a fugitive murder warrant only hours after Las Vegas authorities released a chilling affidavit that detailed what they describe as his confession to the sexual assault and strangulation of 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson.

Jeremy Joseph Strohmeyer, a once-promising 18-year-old high school senior from Long Beach, was behind bars Thursday as the suspected killer of 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson, who was raped and slain this week at a Nevada state-line casino. Authorities said Strohmeyer attracted their attention by talking of his actions to two female classmates, whose parents reported the conversations to police.

Jeremy Strohmeyer, sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl in a Nevada casino restroom, has asked for a trial, claiming that defense attorney Leslie Abramson coerced him into pleading guilty. In papers filed last week in Las Vegas District Court, the former Long Beach man requested that his guilty plea in the death of Sherrice Iverson be thrown out and that he be allowed to stand trial.

The adoptive father of Jeremy Strohmeyer, who was convicted of killing a 7-year-old girl in a Nevada bathroom, said Tuesday that the crime would have been prevented if county officials had disclosed information about the mental illness of his son's birth mother. John Strohmeyer made his comments after he and his wife, Winnie, appeared before the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich is calling for the Department of Children and Family Services to review its adoption policies after the lawsuit recently filed against the county by the adoptive parents of convicted killer Jeremy Strohmeyer. The motion by Antonovich instructs the department's director to review procedures for disclosure of information about the background of birth parents. The board is expected to discuss the matter Oct. 26.

The parents of killer Jeremy Strohmeyer are suing Los Angeles County, alleging that social workers deliberately withheld crucial information about his birth mother's mental illness that would have stopped them from adopting the toddler. Strohmeyer is currently in a Nevada prison without possibility of parole for the murder of 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson in a Nevada casino two years ago.

The parents of killer Jeremy Strohmeyer are suing Los Angeles County, alleging social workers deliberately withheld crucial information about his birth mother's mental illness that would have stopped them from adopting the toddler. Jeremy Strohmeyer is currently in a Nevada prison without possibility of parole for the murder of 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson in a Nevada casino two years ago.

Federal authorities have opened a preliminary investigation into David Cash's possible involvement in his high school friend's notorious murder of a 7-year-old Los Angeles girl in a Nevada casino restroom last year, officials said Thursday.

The spokesman for the mother of the girl slain last year in a Nevada casino denounced the girl's parents Thursday, saying they were more interested in money than justice. Community activist Najee Ali said he would no longer act as the spokesman for Yolanda Manuel, mother of Sherrice Iverson, the 7-year-old who was sexually assaulted and strangled in a casino restroom. "Yolanda wants to make money off her child's death," said Ali, standing by Sherrice's grave.

A candlelight vigil was held Monday night in Leimert Park in honor of Sherisse Iverson, the South-Central Los Angeles girl who was killed in a bathroom of a Nevada casino last May. Monday would have been the girl's 8th birthday. "We are calling attention to all the violence that is going on with our kids," said Yolanda Manual, mother of Sherisse. "The message is to stop the violence." Tribute also was paid at the vigil to Selwyn LeFlore, the 9-year-old boy who was killed Oct.

In a lengthy, rambling appeal before a packed courtroom Wednesday, Jeremy Strohmeyer, the Long Beach man who murdered a 7-year-old girl last year in the bathroom of a Nevada casino, asked her family for forgiveness but said he was not the only one to blame for her death.

The spokesman for the mother of the girl slain last year in a Nevada casino denounced the girl's parents Thursday, saying they were more interested in money than justice. Community activist Najee Ali said he would no longer act as the spokesman for Yolanda Manuel, mother of Sherrice Iverson, the 7-year-old who was sexually assaulted and strangled in a casino restroom. "Yolanda wants to make money off her child's death," said Ali, standing by Sherrice's grave.