Turner v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Manoukian, J.:

In 1977, appellant, Robert Turner, was charged with and convicted by jury of the first degree murder of Joe Hicks. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Turner appealed that conviction and we reversed on a ground not relevant to the instant appeal. Turner v. State, 96 Nev. 164, 605 P.2d 1140 (1980).

In 1980, Turner was retried by another jury. During that trial, the prosecution introduced a statement which Turner made to the police shortly after his arrest, in which he admitted shooting Hicks, but claimed he acted in…