Gallego v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Shearing, J.:

Appellant Gerald Armond Gallego murdered two teenage girls in Pershing County in 1980. He was convicted and sentenced to death. In 1997, a federal court ordered that Gallego be resen-tenced. He received a new penalty hearing and was again sentenced to death.

Gallego contends that a number of errors occurred at his second penalty hearing, including that the district court erred in not permitting him to represent himself and in not appointing substitute counsel. We conclude that none of Gallego’s assignments of error warrant relief.

FACTS

Two teenage girls, Stacey…