Legal Opinion
Haynes v. State
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided June 25, 1987No. 17246PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
This is an appeal from a conviction of first degree murder and imposition of the death penalty. We reject Haynes’s claims of error during the guilt phase and affirm the conviction. For reasons to be stated, we annul the death penalty and substitute the sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
To understand why we cannot allow the death penalty to be imposed, a rather detailed account of circumstances surrounding the homicide is provided.
On June 4, 1985, Eddie Lee Haynes walked up behind Robert Ross, who was washing a car, and hit him on the head twice with an…
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