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Case No. 1 1 TR 2680021
Dept. No.3
FILED
RENO MUNICIPAL COURT
DEPT. NO.3
IAR I 3 2012
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DOROTHY NASH HOLMES. JUDGE
IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF RENO
COUNTY OF WASHOE STATE OF NEVADA
CITY OF RENO,
Plaintiff,
vs.
ZACHARY BARKER COUGHLIN,
Defendant.
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ORDER STRIKING FUGITIVE
DOCUMENT FILED ON
MARCH 7, 2012
On March 7, 2012 at 2: 16 p.m., the Clerk of the Reno Municipal Court filed a document
fxed to the coun by self-represente Utlgat Zach Coughlin in the above-captioned case.
Zach Coughlin is an attorey licensed to practice law in the State of Nevada under Bar No.
9473. In his faxed documen he had apparently typed the words "REQUEST FOR AUDIO
RECORDING OF FEBRUARY 27
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, 2012 TRIAL AND FOR APPT AND TO WAIVE
FILING FEE AND TRANSCRIPT FEE FOR APPEAL COUNSEL" over a document he had
previously prepared entitled Motion to Proce Infonna Pauperis. The date that appenrs on
the document, faxed to the court for filing at ) :53 p,m. on Marc 7, 2012. is November 22,
2011. The document contains the hand-written sigature of Zach Coughlin and has a 2-page
afidavit attached. Mr. Coughlin had apparently typed into that document the case number
and depaent of his instant trafic citation case in this depatment, although the content of
the motion and afidavit appears t b one he used previously in a ca in another department
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in Reno Municipal Court last year. A copy of said faxed and fed document is attached
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hereto as Exhibit 1 to this Order.
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This court fnds that said document is an e t, altered, and inappropriate document
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that should not have been fled by the clerk of this court. This court further fnds that Zach
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Coughlin submitted said document to this court by fax for fling, in knowing disregard of the
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he was taking advantage of the fact that it is standard court procedure for the clerk of the
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court to automatically fle all documents that a faxed to the court for fling. Therefore, the
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above-described document is a fugitive document.
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IT IS ORDERED that the fgitve document fled as "Request for Audio Recording,
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etc" shall be stricken from the record in this case and shall be disregarded by the parties and
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Dated this 13th day of March, 2012.
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The Hon. D thy Nash Holmes
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