Halbower v. State

*211OPINION

In 1977 Rodney Halbower was convicted of escape from prison, a felony under NRS 212.090. He was also adjudged to be an habitual criminal with five prior felony convictions and, pursuant to NRS 207.010, was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.1

The district court based its determination that Halbower was an habitual criminal upon exemplified copies of (1) three prior felony convictions in Nevada for forcible rape, infamous crime against nature, and infamous crime against nature with force and (2) two prior felony convictions in Michigan for breaking and…