This Week

Monday, March 9 - 8:00 a.m. - Assembly Judiciary Committee meets 

Tuesday, March 10 8:00 a.m. - Assembly Corrections, Parole & Probation Committee meets

Tuesday, March 10 8:30 a.m. - Senate Judiciary Commitee meets

Wednesday, March 11 8:00 a.m. - Assembly Judiciary Committee meets

Wednesday March 11 8:30 a.m. - Senate Judiciary Committee meets -

Wednesday, March 11 - Nevada Supreme Court oral arguments:

10:00 a.m. Amato v. State - Did the improper preservation of trial transcripts prevent a meaningful review by the Supreme Court?

10:30 a.m. Saintal v. State - Whether verdicts for two charges were inconsistent where stolen items were charged as being worth more than $250 for grand larceny charges, but less than $250 for a conspiracy to possession stolen property charge.  Whether the Appellant's designation as a habitual criminal and the life sentence for each count amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

11:30 a.m. Fleetwood Corp. v. Towne - lease dispute over geothermal resources in Washoe Valley.  Argument concerns the grant of summary judgment and the denial of attorney fees.

1:30 p.m. Evans v. Evans - Whether a district court err in determining child custoy without an evidentiary hearing and whether child support was properly calculated.

Thursday, March 12 - Nevada Supreme Court opinion release day

Thursday, March 12 8:00 a.m. - Assembly Corrections, Parole & Probation Committee meets

Thursday, March 12 approx 8:30 - Assembly Judiciary Commitee Work Session

Thursday, March 12 - Nevada Supreme Court oral arguments

10:00 a.m. Gibbens v. State - Whether the State presented sufficient evidence to support a conviction for first-degree murder for a 15 year old who shot his 12 year old friend.

10:30 a.m. Bradford v. State - Whether the district court abused its discretion in allowing the State to question the Appellant about his gang affiliation.  Whether the district court properly instructed the jury about the deadly weapon enhancement and adoptive admissions.

11:30 a.m. Resort Properties of America v. Cherry Inv. & Dev.- Recovery of a real estate broker's commission and summary judgment.

Friday, March 13 - Assembly Judiciary Committee meets

Friday, March 13 - Nevada Supreme Court oral arguments

10:00 a.m. In re: Parental Rights as to Raleigh - Whether the district court properly terminated a mother's parental rights? 

10:30 a.m. Murphy v. State -  The defendant was convicted for second-degree kidnapping for the abduction of a child.  Did the district court abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of the Appellant's prior bad acts, specifically, an alleged sexual assault of an 11-year old child in Missouri. 

The US Supreme Court began a two week recess today.