Legal Opinion
Paine v. State
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided July 7, 1994No. 24304PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
This is Frederick Lavelle Paine’s second appeal to this court from a sentence of death. In the first appeal, we affirmed the district court’s finding that Paine had acted randomly and without apparent motive when he committed murder, but nevertheless vacated the sentence because of the appearance that one of the sentencing judges may have been inattentive during the proceedings. Paine v. State, 107 Nev. 998, 823 P.2d 281 (1991) (Paine I). A different three-judge panel thereafter resentenced Paine to death, thus presenting the occasion for the instant appeal.
Paine now raises six…
3Cases cited14 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Riggins v. NevadaSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Hall v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1975
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4Cited by21 opinions
- Pellegrini v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 2001
- Kirksey v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1996
- Richard Allan MORAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. E.K. McDANIEL, Warden, Respondent-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
- Tracy Petrocelli v. Ron AngeloneCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2001
- Johnson v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 2002
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