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Hey, everybody. If you're watching
on YouTube, you are probably shocked shocked

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to see video on a Life is
the Gamble podcast. But we had breaking

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news today when I got a call
from everyone's favorite gambling lawyer, bobner Session,

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and wanted to get it out there
as quickly as possible. So Bob,

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welcome to the new podcast Life Is
a Gamble. Thank you, good

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to be here. Yeah, okay, so you had big momentous news for

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mainly for professional gamblers today, So
why don't we get right into it.

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What's happening. Well, it turns
out that in June the Nevada trespassing Statute

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was amended and our two O seven
point two hundred, which many of your

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listeners are intimately familiar with, and
that amendment is of some import Also,

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I want to caution that this is
an amendment to a statute if you've contractually

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agreed not to enter into a casino. I have yet to research the effects

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of this amendment on that, and
I think it would depend on the nature

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of the agreement you reached with the
casino. So that being said, here's

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the amendment, and I'm going to
read what used to be the statute and

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then I'm going to read what is
now the statute as of June thirteenth this

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year. Historically, the statute read, unless a greater penalty is provided pursuant

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to NRS two hundred point six h
three, any person who, under circumstances

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not amounting to a burglary, willfully
goes or remains upon land or in any

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building after having been warned by the
owner or occupant thereof not to trespass,

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is guilty of a misdemeanor. That
statute now reads, unless a greater penalty

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is provided pursuing to NRS two hundred
point six zero three, any person who,

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under circumstances not amounting to a burglary, willfully goes or remains upon any

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land or in any building, after
having been warned during the previous twenty four

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months by the owner or occupant thereof
not to trespass, is guilty of a

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misdemeanor. My reading of this statute
says that the trespassed warnings given by casinos

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in that are more than two years
old are no longer valid as establishing criminal

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activity. In essence, they've revoked
the lifetime ban and made it a two

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year ban. Okay, So a
couple of things. First of all,

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this is Nevada only, right,
Okay. So and so when you were

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saying, unless you had contractually agreed
not to enter the casino, what does

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that mean. Well, for examples, some people have entered into settlement agreements

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with the casinos and signed a document
that says we promised not to come back,

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or not to go into the casino, or not to go on your

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property. Those agreements may be reliant
on the then existing law, or may

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not be reliant on the then existing
law. I've not had an opportunity to

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research that, and I'm not opining
on those at all. What I am

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saying, though, is if somebody
gave you a trespass morning more than two

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years ago that warning, that warning
itself no longer carries a criminal effect.

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Okay, even if there's a contract, I don't think there's any crime.

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But the contract can carry depending on
the terms of the contract and whether or

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not it's enforceable visa vis, this
unexpected change in the law can carry with

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it some breach of contract penalties and
some other things, depending on what the

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casino gave up in exchange for your
agreement not to enter. Okay, So

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we should point out though, that
the point of contact for players who are

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getting trespassed is with the security and
pit bosses, who obviously do not know

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the law. So even though it
may not be a criminal act for you

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to be in there, it doesn't
mean that you may not suffer for some

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repercussions because they don't understand the law
or are not aware of this change in

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the law. I did some between
the time when we first talked earlier this

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morning, Richard, and right now. I did some research and I looked

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for the legislative history behind this,
and it is between non existent and sparse.

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Okay, the idea what prompted the
change? I think I do.

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I have to read well between the
lines, and this is this is a

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this is a wag a wild ass
guess. Okay, this came out of

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the judiciary commitment. I know from
having appeared for years. One of the

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problems with the judiciary and the trespassing
law is the judges at the Justice of

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the Peace level, the municipal court
judges and the Justice and the Justice Court

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judges are the ones faced with enforcing
this law. And I have been in

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court when the judge looks at a
prosecutor and says, well, when was

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this person trespassed? And they say
nineteen ninety seven, and the judge goes,

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and this is still effective, and
the prosecutor goes, absolutely, your

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honor, look at the statute,
and the judge goes. The judge does

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not say this, I will say
this, Oh, that's bullshit. That's

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the reaction to that kind of thing. And they've probably gotten fed up with

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it because this is all over their
docket all the time because casinos are always

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trespassing people, and since it came
out of judiciary, I'm absolutely surmising,

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and again a wild ass guest,
but they said, we don't want our

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dockets messed up with this stuff.
Now, I think what's going to happen?

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And unless the casinos are watching your
program, Richard, and I actually

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hope they are. I don't want
to keep this a secret, and I'm

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not looking for any extra work,
but a whole bunch of people are going

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to rely on this statute go back
into casinos and find themselves arrested and falsely

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imprisoned for committing a crime which is
patently which appears to patently not be a

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crime under the law. So get
you clear up your justice court docket.

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But maybe you're creating some new headaches
for the district court docket. Yeah,

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and it, But the casinos can
just trespass you again, correct, Yes,

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I meant to mention that it appears
that that would be the case.

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But for example, some of my
historic clients who are card counters, they're

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now they've been banned, they've been
living under a trespass warning. I know

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one person this would apply to very
much. So he has historically had the

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ability to play incognito, but he
has been avoiding playing incognito for a period

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of years at this time because he
does not want to spend a night in

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the Clark County Detention Center. He
did it once, never wants to do

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it again, so he's been avoiding
that casino. Technically, at this point,

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it would appear that if the last
time he was giving a warning was

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more than two years ago, and
he's no longer recognizable to anybody in security,

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he can one likely play incognito and
under the radar, and if it

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fails, he at least has the
amendment to two oh seven two hundred to

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say, keep your stinking hands off
of me. You fill the ape,

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I get the movie reference. Yeah, okay, so that's about what I

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have to say. Let me know
how I access your podcast though, Oh

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okay, sure, I will send
you a link absolutely, And thanks for

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coming on this morning and sharing that
with us. Well, thanks for sharing

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it with everybody. Richard. Good
to see you again. Talk to your son,