Goudge v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Hardesty, J.:

In this appeal, we address a district court’s discretion when resolving a petition for release from a special sentence of lifetime su*550pervision. NRS 176.0931(3), the statutory provision governing such petitions, provides that a district court “shall grant a petition for release from a special sentence of lifetime supervision’ ’ if certain requirements are met. Based on the plain language of this statute, we conclude that the district court has discretion to determine whether a petitioner has met the statutory requirements but lacks discretion to deny a petition…