STATE v. SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

No. 73389.

421 P.3d 803 (2018)

134 Nev. Adv. Opn. 50

The STATE of Nevada, Petitioner, v. The SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF WASHOE; and the Honorable William A. Maddox, Respondents, and John Thomas Kephart, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

July 19, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam Paul Laxalt , Attorney General, Carson City; Christopher J. Hicks , District Attorney, and Joseph R. Plater , Deputy District Attorney, Washoe County, for Petitioner.

Jeremy T. Bosler , Public Defender, and John Reese Petty , Chief Deputy Public Defender, Washoe County, for Real Party in Interest.

BEFORE PICKERING, GIBBONS and HARDESTY, JJ.


OPINION

Nevada law imposes increasingly serious penalties on repeat domestic battery offenders. A first offense is a misdemeanor, while a third domestic battery offense within seven years of the first constitutes a felony. A jury convicted John Kephart of domestic battery, his third such offense in seven...

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