State v. Crockett

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

Louis Crockett was convicted of murdering Curtis Wheeler and sentenced to death. After the trial one Floyd Hamlet revealed himself to Crockett’s attorneys as the person seen leaving the murder site with a shotgun, not Crockett, as a witness had testified. On Hamlet’s statements Crockett’s motion for a new trial was granted by the trial court from which the state appeals on the ground that the evidence did not meet the standards of NRS 175.535, subsection 7, and that thus the trial court’s decision was an abuse of discretion.1 State v. Bauer, 34 *518Nev. 305, 122 P.…