Passanisi v. Director, Nevada Department of Prisons

OPINION

Appellant entered a guilty plea to two counts of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor causing substantial bodily harm or death to another person, NRS 484.3795, and one count of leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury or death, NRS 484.219. The judgment of conviction was entered in the Ninth Judicial District Court in Douglas County on September 9, 1986.

On September 8, 1987, appellant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the First Judicial District Court, Carson City, alleging that his guilty plea was involuntary and coerced, that he was…