Minden, NV
Criminal defense Lawyer at Minden, NV
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, Family ... +3 more
OUTCOME: The lower court decision against the Defendant was reversed and remanded back down to the District Court.
In Miles, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that an inadequate verification or service of a post-conviction habeas corpus petition is not a jurisdictional defect, and further held that such defects are p ... rocedural and may be cured through a timely amendment to the petition.
OUTCOME: Case expanded Albitre v. State, 103 Nev. 281 (1987) redundant conviction theory to battery cases that a criminal defendant could not be convicted of both substantial bodily harm and deadly weapon enhancements resulting from one act.
Nevada Supreme Court case defining the intersection of battery law (deadly weapon and substantial bodily harm). This case was the catalyst for the Nevada Legislature to amend the criminal law in the ... State of Nevada on battery creating three levels of felony battery instead of the two levels that existed previously at the time of the case and the Supreme Court decision.
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