The Nevada Supreme Court today overturned the convictions of Sandy Murphy, a topless dancer and Rick Tabish, a trucking contractor,for the murder of Ted Binion, a Las Vegas casino exec who came from a long line of prominent casino owners.

The appeals court said the trial judge improperly allowed a kidnapping and extortion charge against Tabish pertaining to a different victim to be tried with the murder charges, and improperly allowed prejudicial testimony from one of Binion's estate attorneys at trial without proper limiting instructions.

This was a very high profile trial in Nevada, televised on Court TV. It had a lot of lurid details, you can read all about it here.

Jurors found the pair staged Binion's death to look like a drug overdose. After an unsuccessful bid for a new trial citing wrongdoing by jurors, counsel, and a jailhouse snitch, Murphy and Tabish were sentenced to 22- and 25-years to life, respectively.