Baymon v. State

OPINION

Eddie Lee Baymon has appealed from his conviction for possession of a controlled substance, marijuana, and from the imposition upon him of a life sentence pursuant to Nevada’s habitual offender enhancement statute. NRS 207.010. He was arrested following a pat-down search at the Nevada State Prison, where he is serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for first degree murder.

Baymon first argues that his “conviction” 1 under NRS 207.010, the habitual offender statute, must fall because the evidence offered by the State at trial did not affirmatively establish that each of…