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Michael Allmon

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Michael Allmon is a prosecutor in the Clark County District Attorney's Special Victims Unit and a former Marine Corps major. He says his focus is public safety and the needs of crime victims.

Track record

Track record — General

General · 34 records
  • Received Independent Black Voters’ 2026 general-election endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    October 1, 2026

    Source: theblackbusinessdirectory.biz

  • Received the Nevada Veterans Caucus’s endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    October 1, 2026

    Source: nevadaveteranscaucus.org

  • Received VoteVets’ endorsement for his Nevada justice-of-the-peace campaign.

    October 1, 2026

    Source: votevets.org

  • Received The Nevada Independent panel’s recommendation to advance from the 2026 primary election for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    October 1, 2026

    Source: thenevadaindependent.com

  • Received the Communications Workers of America’s 2026 general-election endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    October 1, 2026

    Source: cwa-union.org

  • Received the SEIU Local 1107 union’s 2026 endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    September 30, 2026

    Source: seiunv.org

  • Received the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    September 29, 2026

    Source: reviewjournal.com

  • Received the Nevada State AFL-CIO labor federation’s 2026 general-election endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    September 29, 2026

    Source: media.linkedunion.com

  • Received The Vegas Voice’s endorsement for Henderson justice of the peace.

    September 28, 2026

    Source: thevegasvoice.net

  • Received the Las Vegas Police Protective Association’s 2026 endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    September 22, 2026

    Source: cdn.prod.website-files.com

  • Received Teamsters Nevada’s 2026 general-election endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    September 17, 2026

    Source: teamstersnv.org

  • Received Plasterers and Cement Masons Local 797’s 2026 general-election endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    September 14, 2026

    Source: media.linkedunion.com

  • Received Vegasdesi’s 2026 primary-election endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    June 1, 2026

    Source: vegasdesi.com

  • Received the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Managers and Supervisors Association’s 2026 primary endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    May 27, 2026

    Source: lvpmsa.org

  • Received the Henderson Police Officers Association’s endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4 in 2026.

    May 21, 2026

    Source: hpoa.us

  • Received the Clark County Prosecutors Association’s 2026 endorsement for Henderson Justice Court Department 4.

    May 12, 2026

    Source: clarkcountyprosecutors.org

  • Confirmed the agreed sentence of life in prison with eligibility to seek release after fifteen years for Juan Rosario Vera's guilty plea to sexual assault and battery with intent to sexually assault a child. The judge imposed that sentence.

    August 20, 2025

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Asked for life in prison with eligibility to seek release after 105 years for Pablo Liera-Perez. A jury had convicted him of 21 child-sex-abuse charges and acquitted him of one attempted sexual assault charge. The judge imposed the requested sentence.

    June 25, 2025

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Signed formal charges accusing Juan Rosario Vera of sexual assault of a child, child abuse and coercion, forcing someone to act against their will. A grand jury, which screens criminal charges before trial, approved the charges.

    June 10, 2025

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Represented prosecutors with Samuel Kern in Fernando Reyes’s four-death impaired-driving case. Asked the court to keep $200,000 bail and electronic monitoring. The court granted the request.

    January 25, 2023

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Asked the court to reject Evanda Jones’s request to take back his guilty plea. The judge reviewed the plea recording and denied the request.

    December 14, 2022

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Requested $250,000 bail in Dontae Eugene Mathis Jr.’s child sex-trafficking prosecution. The court instead set bail at $100,000.

    May 5, 2022

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Filed a criminal complaint as a Nye County deputy district attorney accusing Catherine Musall of child abuse or neglect involving a 15-year-old.

    July 6, 2021

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Signed a plea agreement resolving Peter Helfrich's vehicle-ramming prosecution through no-contest pleas, accepting conviction without admitting guilt. The pleas covered battery with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor assault. The deal included dismissal of other charges.

    April 6, 2021

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Represented the State in Brett Alan Linder's written plea agreements for stealing a gun and firing into a vehicle. The agreements exchanged those guilty pleas and two domestic-violence pleas for dismissal or nonfiling of other charges. The State's prison recommendation was concurrent terms, served at the same time. Another prosecutor signed for Allmon.

    February 19, 2021

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Represented the State in written charges accusing Brett Alan Linder of stealing a gun and firing into an occupied vehicle. Another prosecutor signed the charges on Allmon's behalf.

    February 18, 2021

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Represented the State in Christopher Pallotti's guilty-plea agreement on drug possession and a false sale-receipt charge. The deal reduced a separate domestic-battery charge and recommended probation, court supervision instead of prison, and a court drug-treatment program. Another person signed for Allmon.

    February 8, 2021

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Requested two to five years in prison instead of probation, court supervision outside prison, for Orlando Griffin-Ramirez in a drug case. The judge imposed that prison term.

    September 25, 2020

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Represented the State in an agreement to reinstate Marscel Carroll's probation, court supervision instead of prison, in a false-identity case. The agreement removed a provision reducing his conviction. The court reinstated probation on those terms.

    August 31, 2020

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Signed a criminal complaint charging Peter Helfrich with two counts of battery with a deadly weapon. It alleged he intentionally rammed a car carrying two people.

    July 6, 2020

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Signed a criminal complaint as a Nye County deputy district attorney accusing Sankona Lovelle Graham of sexual assault and lewdness involving a child.

    May 27, 2020

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Filed a criminal complaint as a Nye County deputy district attorney accusing Kevin Caleb Heier of attempted murder, domestic strangulation, elder abuse, weapon assaults and related offenses.

    May 20, 2020

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Worked as a prosecutor in Nye County’s Pahrump office.

    December 5, 2019

    Source: nyecountynv.gov

  • Was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 2010.

    August 16, 2018

    Source: pkp.sites.unlv.edu

Track record — Legal Competence

Legal Competence · 21 favorable · 5 unfavorable
  • Signed an opposition to dismissing child sexual-abuse charges against Benjamine Furlow for delay. Argued his departure and lack of harm to his defense defeated the claim. The court denied dismissal.

    November 6, 2025Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Joined Joshua Gipson's lawyer in asking the court to correct a sentencing error. Their signed agreement acknowledged that the prosecution had wrongly sought an added weapon penalty on top of an enhanced sentence for a repeat violent offender.

    May 14, 2025Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Presented the prosecution's final response in Pablo Liera-Perez's child-sex-abuse trial. The judge struck his statement calling the defendant evil as an improper personal attack. Allmon apologized and acknowledged that he had gone too far.

    May 6, 2025Unfavorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Defended bringing new arson charges against Billy Hines after prosecutors withdrew an earlier case during a hearing to screen the evidence before trial. The judge rejected his reading of Nevada law and dismissed the new case.

    April 23, 2025Unfavorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Signed an opposition to permanently dismissing child sexual-abuse charges against Dajon Hardy. Argued disputed evidence did not negate the charges or justify that remedy. He argued the motion the next day; the court denied it.

    March 10, 2025Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Requested 30 years to life after Ahuner Yanes's guilty pleas to child sexual assault and kidnapping. Argued that the abuse, its harm and his failure to accept responsibility warranted prison terms served one after another. The court imposed that sentence.

    January 30, 2025Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Opposed Ahuner Yanes’s request to withdraw guilty pleas to child sexual assault and kidnapping. Argued he had ample time and had already withdrawn an earlier plea. The court denied the request.

    January 16, 2025Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Presented the prosecution's final response in Joshua Gipson's shooting trial. He argued that video, DNA identification and phone evidence proved Gipson's identity and intent to kill. The jury found Gipson guilty of attempted murder and four other charges.

    October 10, 2024Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Questioned Officer Stafford Edwards in Joshua Gipson's attempted-murder trial. After the officer described the shooting as attempted murder, the judge struck that opinion and told Allmon to control the questioning.

    October 8, 2024Unfavorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Presented the prosecution's final response in Jessica De Falco's trial for driving into two people. He argued that her drinking had not prevented her from forming an intent to kill. The jury convicted her of attempted murder, battery and leaving the crash scene.

    September 13, 2024Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Opposed Jessica De Falco's request for a trial decided by a judge without a jury. He argued that Nevada law required the prosecution's consent, which he withheld. The court denied her request.

    September 9, 2024Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Presented the alleged abuse supporting Ramses Zamarron-Estrada's guilty plea to attempted unlawful sexual touching of a child under 14. The court accepted the plea.

    October 19, 2023Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Opposed dismissing Aundrea Hughes’s shooting prosecution after prosecutors supplied the wrong cellphone-data drive. Argued prompt correction and extra review time were adequate. The court denied dismissal but excluded the cellphone data.

    April 7, 2023Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Argued with Michael Dickerson against challenges to the charging evidence in the Hells Angels freeway-shooting prosecution. The challenges concerned shooting counts, alleged gang activity and racketeering, a pattern of crimes through an organization.

    March 31, 2023Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Presented an attempted-robbery charge and two robbery charges involving victims over 60 in Joshua Isiah Croft's case. Questioned witnesses before a grand jury, which screens criminal charges before trial. Removed allegations that Croft used a child to help commit the crimes. The grand jury approved the revised charges.

    April 20, 2022Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Asked to delay Joshua Croft's robbery hearing because a detective was unavailable. Allmon said he had identified the detective the day before and had not sent him a subpoena, a legal notice requiring attendance. The judge denied the request.

    March 10, 2022Unfavorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Asked for a life sentence for Marco Torres after his guilty plea to second-degree murder. Allmon cited the killing of a frail friend and Torres's criminal history. The judge imposed life in prison with eligibility to seek release after ten years.

    June 25, 2021Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Opposed reducing Brett Alan Linder's two earlier felony convictions to less serious offenses. Allmon cited an arrest for a probation violation but acknowledged that he had no proof a court found a violation. The judge granted the reductions. Allmon then requested four to ten years in prison for stealing a gun and firing into a vehicle, instead of probation and drug treatment. He accepted serving the prison terms at the same time. The judge ordered the terms served one after another, totaling eight to twenty years.

    June 21, 2021Unfavorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Represented Nevada in a written response opposing Marco Torres's request to exclude his police confession. The response argued that Torres had chosen to speak after receiving his rights and that detectives had not forced him to confess.

    March 10, 2021Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Represented Nevada in a written response opposing Marco Torres's request to exclude evidence from a police entry without a warrant. The response argued that a 911 call for help gave officers a lawful basis to enter to provide emergency aid.

    March 3, 2021Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Argued for a murder charge against Nickolas Vonalst based on his participation in a gunfight during a robbery.

    February 1, 2021Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Defended sheriff's deputies' entry into Marco Antonio Torres's home without a warrant, arguing that they were responding to an emergency. Argued that the home-invasion charge was valid and that injuries supported a charge involving nunchakus, two sticks joined by a chain. The judge kept the home-invasion charge but dismissed the nunchaku charge for insufficient evidence. The judge ordered more briefing on the entry into the home.

    January 27, 2021Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Argued for sending Peter Helfrich's vehicle-ramming charges to trial despite disputed defenses and overlapping charges. Requested $20,000 bail. The judge sent five charges onward, rejected another and set $25,000 bail.

    November 30, 2020Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Argued that evidence supported sending all seven child-sex-abuse charges against Daniel Caffejian to trial. At the hearing to screen the evidence before trial, the judge found evidence on one count weak but sufficient and sent all seven counts to district court.

    October 1, 2020Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Cross-examined Eboni Cockerham’s former lawyer during her challenge to a child-abuse guilty plea. Argued she had not proved an invalid plea or inadequate legal help. The court denied the challenge.

    September 21, 2020Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

  • Studied law at Arizona State University. Was admitted to practice law in Nevada on October 8, 2019.

    October 8, 2019Favorable on Legal Competence

    Source: nvbar.org

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