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EMERSON v. STATE

No. 12562.

643 P.2d 1212 (1982)

Janet Lee EMERSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

April 28, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan D. Harris, Public Defender and Terrence M. Jackson, Deputy Public Defender, Las Vegas, for appellant.

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

OPINION

ZENOFF, Senior Justice:1 Appellant Janet Emerson was convicted of forgery (NRS 205.090), upon a jury verdict. She contends that the judgment of conviction should be reversed on the basis of (1) the failure of the trial court to give the jury any instruction regarding evidence of her "good character," and (2) prosecutorial misconduct. We agree.

At trial, the state presented the...

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