Court Opinion

ID: 9546957
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:38:32.339776+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:17:05.255994
License: Public Domain

Young, J.,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
Appellant challenges the constitutionality of NRS 175.556 which provides for the appointment of a three-judge panel to sentence a defendant convicted of first degree murder when the jury is unable to reach a unanimous verdict. For the reasons I set forth in my dissent in Beets v. State, 107 Nev. 957, 821 P.2d 1044 (1991), I am unable to conclude that the sentencing procedure is constitutional under Godfrey v. Georgia, 446 U.S. 420 (1980).
I therefore dissent from the portion of the majority opinion which concludes that NRS 175.556 is constitutional. I concur with the remainder of the majority opinion.