CARTER v. STATE

No. 41967.

121 P.3d 592 (2005)

Anthony D. CARTER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

October 20, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip J. Kohn, Public Defender, and Robert Hazeltine Thompson, Deputy Public Defender, Clark County, for Appellant.

Brian Sandoval, Attorney General, Carson City; David J. Roger, District Attorney, and James Tufteland, Chief Deputy District Attorney, Clark County, for Respondent.

Before the Court En Banc.


OPINION

MAUPIN, J.

In this opinion, we examine the extent to which a defendant in a criminal case is entitled to have the trial jury instructed upon his theory of the case. This examination implicates our recent decision in Crawford v. State1 and requires us to revisit this court's decision in Honeycutt v. State.2

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