Mercado v. State

OPINION

A jury convicted Patrick Russell Price and Michael Thomas Mercado, Jr., of first-degree murder in the death of Danny Lee Jackson. The jury was unable to agree on the penalty to be imposed, and three judges were empaneled pursuant to NRS 175.556 to decide appellants’ sentences. Although the State had sought imposition of the death penalty, the three-judge panel sentenced appellant Price to a term of life with the possibility of parole and appellant Mercado to a term of life without the possibility of parole. We affirm both judgments of conviction.

At the time of the murder appellants…