Carson City District Attorney Jason Woodbury is running for reelection, according to a release from his campaign Thursday.
Woodbury was elected in 2014 and reelected in 2018.
“I sincerely appreciate the opportunity Carson City voters provided me when they hired me for this job,” Woodbury said in the release. “We’ve assembled a strong team of men and women who serve this community well.”
Woodbury, 49, said public safety is “obviously job one” and referenced several successful prosecutions in support of his re-election bid, including his office’s role in the Wilber Martinez-Guzman case involving the murder of four people in Gardnerville and Washoe Valley. Martinez-Guzman is scheduled to be sentenced on the murders and eight additional felonies in Carson City in March.
Woodbury also cited the 2020 coroner’s inquest into the death of Clint Malone as an important accomplishment. Malone was fatally stabbed inside a Carson City apartment by the resident. The coroner’s jury determined the killing was justified as self-defense.
“That was the first coroner’s inquest here in decades, and it’s a procedure we plan to utilize in the future,” Woodbury said in the release. “An inquest allows my office to present a full picture of the evidence in an open, public, 100% transparent proceeding. The decedent’s family and loved ones can see for themselves what happened, and we can ask a neutral, independent body of citizens to determine whether the killing was lawful or unlawful. It’s a useful tool in our toolbox.”
Talking about a potential third term, Woodbury said his priorities include completing a comprehensive revision to the Municipal Code.
Woodbury and his wife, Stacy, have two children attending middle school in Carson City. Woodbury’s stepson, Noah Jennings, was recently honorably discharged from the Nevada Army National Guard after six years of service and lives with his wife, Maggy, in Maryland.
