Opinion ID: 1403276
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Heading: First Post-Conviction Application.

Text: In 1968 Rogers filed his first post-conviction application under our Post-Conviction Procedure Act (NRS 177.315-177.385). In that application Rogers claimed that his conviction was void because the jury that tried him had not been selected in accord with the mandates prescribed in Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776 (1968). The State answered that the ruling in Witherspoon was applicable only in those cases where the jury had returned the death penalty. The district judge agreed, and the application was dismissed. Rogers filed a notice of appeal from the court's order of dismissal, but he never perfected the appeal.