Baal v. State

OPINION

After entering pleas of guilty, appellant Thomas Edward Baal was convicted of first degree murder and of robbery, both with use of a deadly weapon. Baal was thereafter sentenced to death by a three-judge panel. The district court sentenced Baal to two consecutive fifteen-year terms for robbery and denied Baal’s motion to withdraw his guilty pleas. Our review of the record convinces us that Baal’s guilty pleas were properly accepted and his sentences properly imposed. We therefore affirm.

THE FACTS

At approximately 5:30 a.m. on February 26, 1988, Thomas Baal arrived on foot at McCarran…