Kershaw v. State

OPINION

The prosecuting attorney agreed to forego filing charges of felony narcotic offenses, alleged to have been committed by Michael Kershaw in the Nevada State Prison. In exchange for this agreement, Kershaw entered a solemn plea of guilty to a charge of having escaped from prison, a violation of NRS 212.090.1 He was sentenced to a five year term, to run consecutively with sentences previously imposed for felony convictions in Arizona and in Ohio.

Kershaw, obviously disenchanted because the sentence was “consecutive” rather than “concurrent,” has appealed claiming that his constitutional…