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Mazen Alotaibi v. Nevada
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Nevada, No. 67380 · judgment November 9, 2017
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether the Nevada Supreme Court’s determination that Petitioner was not entitled to a lesser included offense instruction under the “same elements” test of Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299
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conflicts with this Court’s decisions in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) and Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), the decision of a United States court of appeals, and the decisions of other state courts of last resort in failing to treat a statutory sentencing factor triggering an enhanced mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment as an element of a criminal offense in violation of Petitioner’s right to due process of law?
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Whether the Nevada Supreme Court’s determination that Petitioner was not entitled to a lesser included offense instruction under the “same elements” test of Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299
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arbitrarily fails to follow the doctrine of stare decisis by disavowing and treating the correct holding of its previous decision in Robinson v. State, 110 Nev. 1137, 881 P.2d 667 (1994) as “dictum ” in violation of Petitioner’s right to due process of law?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Dominic Pasquale Gentile
Gentile Cristalli Miller Armeni Savarese
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Apr 16 2018Petition DENIED.
- Mar 28 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/13/2018.
- Feb 07 2018Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 15, 2018)