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University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

2014

Mandatory review of death sentence

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Summary Of Watson V. State, 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 76, Lindsay Liddell Oct 2014

Summary Of Watson V. State, 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 76, Lindsay Liddell

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The Court determined that (1) a Batson objection to peremptory strikes should be analyzed with reference to the amount of allegedly targeted-group members within the venire; and (2) that a jury instruction is not issued in error when there was a reasonable likelihood that the jury did not understand the instruction incorrectly, even if the rule does not comprehensively explain the underlying doctrine, so long as it accurately states the law.