Charles McNelton v. William Gittere (DEATH PENALTY)

1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 8 CHARLES McNELTON, Case No.: 2:00-cv-00284-RCJ-DJA 9 Petitioner ORDER 10 v. 11 WILLIAM GITTERE,1 et al., 12 Respondents 13 14 Before the court for a decision on the merits is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed 15 by Charles McNelton, a Nevada prisoner sentenced to death. ECF No. 133. For reasons that 16 follow, the petition will be denied. 17 I. BACKGROUND 18 The facts underlying McNelton’s conviction and sentence were recounted by the Nevada 19 Supreme Court as follows: 20 McNelton lived with Brian Jackson, his cousin,…