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Unpublished orders by the Nevada Supreme Court

The Las Vegas Sun reports that the Nevada Supreme Court has ordered District Court Judge Donald Mosley to appoint lawyers for two brothers, Gilbert and David Aguilar, and to conduct a new hearing on their post-conviction petitions for writs of habeas corpus. "The Supreme Court said, 'As appellants are serving significant sentences, are indigent, have raised numerous claims that required the investigation of facts outside the record, and faced a significant impediment to litigating those claims with the district court's delay in resolving the petition, we reverse the district court's denial of appellants' petitions....'" It also reports that the Court has declined to rule on the constitutionality of a 2007 state law stating that teenage sex offenders can be punished as adults...continue to full post

Full post as published by Harmful Error on September 09, 2008 (boomark / email).