Jennings v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Shearing, J.:

Appellant Jennings was terminated from his job at the United States Postal Service in Las Vegas. On December 16, 1996, when Jennings received the final decision affirming his termination, he started a three-day crack cocaine binge with an acquaintance. He also removed his wife’s gun from their home sometime during those three days, allegedly because he was planning to kill himself.

Jennings later claimed that on the morning of December 19th, while still under the influence of cocaine, he drove to the post office parking lot, beckoned to the victim, a former…