He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with his family when he was a teenager; he graduated from Bishop Gorman High School in 1979.
The following year in 1987, Roger was hired on with the local District Attorney's office as a criminal prosecutor and quickly moved up to handling major cases.
[1] In response to the violence of the white, rich and suburban 311 Boyz, Roger asked for probation for the subjects, which the judge found very lenient.
[2] Roger successfully prosecuted Rick Tabish and Sandra Murphy in the highly publicized Ted Binion murder trial in the Spring of 2000.
However, in 2003, the Nevada Supreme Court overturned the convictions and Tabish and Murphy were both acquitted of murder after a new trial occurred during the Fall of 2004.