In Re Raggio

OPINION

The Board of Governors of the State Bar of Nevada has recommended that this court reprimand William J. Raggio for public statements made by him as the District Attorney of Washoe County, Nevada, concerning the opinion of this court in the celebrated case of Bean v. State, 86 Nev. 80, 465 P.2d 133 (1970). That opinion, for the second time, sustained a jury verdict finding Bean guilty of first degree murder. When the Bean case was first before this Court, Bean v. State, 81 Nev. 25, 398 P.2d 251 (1965), we affirmed not only his conviction, but the penalty of death which the jury had…