KEARNEY v. STATE

No. 12062.

625 P.2d 93 (1981)

Richard KEARNEY, aka Lee DeWayne Turner, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

March 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan D. Harris, Public Defender, Las Vegas, for appellant.

Richard H. Bryan, Atty. Gen., Carson City, Robert J. Miller, Dist. Atty., and James Tufteland, Deputy Dist. Atty., Las Vegas, for respondent.


OPINION

SPRINGER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a robbery conviction. Appellant claims that the trial court erred in admitting evidence relating to flight and in limiting defense argument to twenty minutes.

Deliberate avoidance of apprehension or prosecution may be properly admissible as showing consciousness of guilt. In the case at bar, when the prosecutor announced his intention during opening argument to raise "the issue of flight," the trial...

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