Starr v. State

By the Court, TAO, J.:

*303Nevada district courts routinely instruct juries that they may consider the defendant's flight from the scene of a crime in deciding his or her guilt. See, e.g., Weber v. State , 121 Nev. 554, 581-82, 119 P.3d 107, 126 (2005), overruled on other grounds by Farmer v. State, 133 Nev. ----, 405 P.3d 114 (2017). Appellant Brandon Starr contends that the district court should have given the exact inverse of that standard instruction. Tried on multiple charges stemming from a spree of armed robberies and burglaries throughout the Las Vegas Valley, Starr argued before the…