Legal Opinion
Miller v. Warden, Nevada State Prison
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided July 22, 1996No. 27566PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Petitioner Ivan Miller challenges newly enacted NRS 213.085, 1 which applies retroactively to first-degree murderers already sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, on the ground that it constitutes an unconstitutional ex post facto law. We agree that the retroactivity provision is unconstitutional. We therefore issue the writ declaring NRS 213.085(1) invalid to the extent that it applies retroactively.
FACTS
In 1983, petitioner Ivan Miller pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. He was sentenced in Nevada district court to life in the Nevada State Prison without…
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