Opinion ID: 4564881
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Heading: Nevada Supreme Court Decision on the Merits

Text: On appeal, the Nevada Supreme Court examined whether the misdemeanor and felony statutes contained the same elements and whether the Nevada Legislature intended to prohibit concurrent convictions of both statutes. Anderson, 129 Nev. at 1095. The Nevada Supreme Court concluded, consistent with precedent, that the Legislature intended that “convictions for each of the [“rules of the road” and “driving while intoxicated”] offenses [were] not [] impermissibly redundant.” Nevada v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 994 P.2d 692, 699 (Nev. 2000)), see Anderson, 129 Nev. at 1095. Then applying the elements test from Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299, 304 (1932) to the specifics of the Nevada laws before it, the Nevada Supreme Court held “[f]ailure to yield is not a lesser-included offense of DUI causing death because each requires proof of an element the other does not . . . .” Anderson, 129 Nev. at 1095. Anderson’s trial counsel filed a petition for rehearing, which the Nevada Supreme Court denied. 16 ANDERSON V. NEVEN