Housewright v. Powell

*737OPINION

This is an appeal from an order of the district court granting respondent Powell’s post-conviction petition for writ of habeas corpus. Powell’s petition challenged two guilty pleas as constitutionally infirm on the ground that Powell had not been informed at the time he entered his pleas that his sentences would necessarily be consecutive because each of the two offenses was committed while Powell was “under sentence of imprisonment.” See NRS 176.035(2). The district court concluded that the pleas were constitutionally infirm and permitted Powell to withdraw his pleas. The state then…