Legal Opinion
Bridges v. State
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided August 23, 2000No. 32887PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
The State charged appellant Sebastian Stephanus Bridges with the October 26, 1997, murder of Hunter Blatchford, and with related offenses. The State sought the death penalty for the murder. Bridges represented himself at trial pursuant to his own request, after the district court found him competent to proceed and capable of representing himself.
Bridges was subsequently convicted of: (1) first degree kidnapping (of Blatchford) with the use of a deadly weapon; (2) second degree kidnapping (of Bridges’ wife, Laurie) with the use of a deadly weapon; (3) battery (of Laurie) with the use of…
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