Court Opinion

ID: 9797843
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 04:30:27.417449+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:59:11.621530
License: Public Domain

Maupin, C. J.,
with whom Agosti, J., agrees,
concurring:
I concur in the result reached by the majority, but write separately to state my view that there was no prosecutorial misconduct at trial in connection with the “massacre” argument.
It is true that no facts on the record technically demonstrated that the killings in this case constituted the “worst massacre in the history of Las Vegas.” (Emphasis added.) However, whether the killing spree perpetrated by appellant was or was not the worst *178“massacre” is of little moment. What appellant did was a “massacre” by any definition of the word. While the rhetoric was not specifically accurate, the argument was a legitimate comment on the apparent random gunning down of five people, killing four of them.