BROWNING v. STATE

No. 39063.

91 P.3d 39 (2004)

Paul Lewis BROWNING, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada; Warden, Ely State Prison, E.K. McDaniel and Frankie Sue Del Papa, Attorney General for the State of Nevada, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

June 10, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JoNell Thomas, Las Vegas; Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP and Jason B. Isaacs, San Diego, California; Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP and Warrington Samuel Parker III, San Francisco, California, for Appellant.

Brian Sandoval, Attorney General, Carson City; David J. Roger, District Attorney, Clark A. Peterson, Chief Deputy District Attorney, and H. Leon Simon, Deputy District Attorney, Clark County, for Respondents.

Before SHEARING, C.J., ROSE and MAUPIN, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

In 1985, appellant Paul Lewis Browning robbed and stabbed to death Hugo Elsen at Elsen's jewelry store in Las Vegas. Browning was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. This is his timely first petition seeking post-conviction relief, pursuant to former NRS 177.315-.385 (equivalent to a post-conviction habeas petition). The district court denied the petition, finding that Browning received effective assistance of counsel and...

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