Meegan v. State

*1152OPINION

By the Court,

Shearing, J.:

This is an appeal from a conviction of first-degree murder pursuant to a jury verdict which resulted in a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for Appellant James Francis Meegan and an appeal from the district court’s order denying appellant’s motion for a new trial. This court consolidated the two appeals. NRAP 3(b).

Meegan’s ten-month-old daughter, Francine, died. After she died, Meegan and his wife took Francine’s body to the Arizona *1153desert where Meegan burned the body and then abandoned it. In summarizing a videotaped interview…