Ewell v. State

OPINION

These are appeals from judgments of conviction, pursuant to a jury trial, of two counts each of attempted murder with a deadly weapon and one count each of illegal discharge of a firearm. The district court sentenced each appellant to serve a total of twenty years in the Nevada State Prison.

In the early morning hours of July 7, 1988, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was conducting a “reverse sting” operation near a housing project in Las Vegas. Police officers, dressed as gang members, were stopping traffic and offering to sell narcotics to the persons in the stopped…