Legal Opinion
Evans v. State
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided August 28, 1997No. 27832PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Todd Evans was convicted at trial of murder, false imprisonment, battery with a deadly weapon and kidnapping. We affirm these convictions.
FACTS
In the early morning of April 4, 1995, Tracy Wilkinson was brutally beaten over a period of several hours at the residence of Todd Evans on Plumb Lane in Reno, Nevada. Wilkinson was then thrown into a mine shaft on Peavine Mountain and shot several times.
The convictions in this case were primarily based on the testimony of Larry Hall and Glenn Rasco. During the trial, Evans implicated Hall and Rasco as the perpetrators. All three agreed that, on…
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- Austin v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1971
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