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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2011, file photo, Vagos motorcycle gang member Ernesto Gonzalez is led from district court in Reno, Nev., after pleading guilty in the shooting death of Hells Angels member Jeffrey Pettigrew. Gary Rudnick, the star witness who helped convict the triggerman, Gonzalez, who killed a high-ranking Hells Angels' boss at a Nevada casino in 2011 said he was lying when he testified that the shooting was an assassination plot orchestrated by a rival motorcycle gang, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Gonzalez is scheduled to be tried again in August 2017 after his conviction was tossed on a technicality. (David B.Parker/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, Pool, File)

APNewsBreak: Plot to kill gang boss a lie, witness now says

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

This photo taken Saturday, June 4, 2016, shows one of the signs posted at the Eldorado hotel-casino in Reno, Nev., during a Street Vibrations motorcycle festival warning that gang members cannot wear their colors. Most area casinos adopted the policy after a fatal shootout between rival gangs in Sparks in September 2011. Former Vagos leader Ernesto Gonzalez was found guilty of murder, but the Nevada Supreme Court overturned the conviction and his retrial is pending. (AP Photo/By Scott Sonner).

5 years after biker gang casino shootout, new trial looms

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press