Shomari Hamlin was arrested for being on the wrong side of the street.
He was walking by a wash near the Las Vegas Strip in 2023 in an area that he and other homeless people frequented. A police officer asked to see his ID and found that Hamlin, as a result of a prior drug paraphernalia charge, had an active “order-out order” banning him from being on or near the Strip.
Hamlin had crossed the boundary that makes up the resort corridor, thereby violating the court order and committing a misdemeanor.
So-called “order-out orders,” issued by judges, peaked when the Resort Corridor Court operated in 2023 and 2024.
