Harris v. State

By the Court, STIGLICH, J.:

*209Appellant Ammar Harris shot and killed a fellow motorist driving on the Las Vegas Strip. The motorist's car then careened down the Strip and struck a taxicab, killing both the driver and a passenger in a fiery explosion. At trial, the district court admitted photographs of the taxicab victims, including images of their bodies disfigured by the fire and subsequent autopsies. The main issue in this appeal is whether admission of the photographs amounted to an abuse of the district court's discretion. We conclude that it did. Photographs, even gruesome ones, may be…