Joe M. Bonaventure Jr. was the Justice of the Peace for the arraignment and preliminary hearings for O.J. Simpson in Las Vegas Robbery case in the Fall of 2007. Judge Bonaventure is a Justice of the Peace for Clark County, Nevada Department 9. He became an attorney in 2002, and was elected judge in November 2004. He is the son of former District Court Judge Joseph T. Bonaventure, who presided over the famous Ted Binion murder case in Las Vegas in 2000.
Joe M. Bonaventure Jr. graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a degree in business, and graduated from law school at the William S. Boyd School of Law, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. After graduation from law school, he worked at the law firm of Bonaventure & Goldstein before being elected as a Justice of the Peace.
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