Deutscher v. Warden, Nevada State Prison, 16901

• Decision Date: 04 September 1986
• Docket Number: No. 16901,16901
• Citation: 102 Nev. 388,724 P.2d 213
• Parties: Henry DEUTSCHER, Appellant, v. WARDEN, NEVADA STATE PRISON, Respondent.
• Court: Nevada Supreme Court

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724 P.2d 213

102 Nev. 388

Henry DEUTSCHER, Appellant, v. WARDEN, NEVADA STATE PRISON, Respondent.

No. 16901.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sept. 4, 1986.

Perkins Coie, Seattle, Wash., Dean Breeze, Lambrose, FitzSimmons & Perkins, Las Vegas, for appellant.

Brian McKay, Atty. Gen., Carson City, Robert Miller, Dist. Atty. and James Tufteland, Deputy, Las Vegas, for respondent.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Appellant Henry Deutscher appeals from the denial of his second petition for post-conviction relief.

Henry Deutscher was convicted of first degree murder and robbery and sentenced to death and fifteen consecutive years in prison. On October 18, 1979, this court affirmed Deutscher's conviction and sentence. See Deutscher v. State, 95 Nev. 669, 601 P.2d 407 (1979). Deutscher then petitioned the U.S. district court for a writ of habeas corpus. The U.S. district court ordered Deutscher to petition the Nevada district court for post-conviction relief. He did so. The Nevada district court denied Deutscher post-conviction relief. This court dismissed Deutscher's appeal from the Nevada district court's denial of post-conviction relief. The U.S. district court thereafter denied Deutscher habeas corpus relief.

Deutscher was represented in foregoing proceedings by the public defender's office. After the U.S. district court denied Deutscher habeas corpus relief, Deutscher's present counsel replaced the public defender as Deutscher's counsel.

Deutscher then unsuccessfully appealed the U.S. district court's denial of habeas corpus relief. Ahlswede v. Wolff, 720 F.2d 1108 (9th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 873, 105 S.Ct. 225, 83 L.Ed.2d 155 (1984). On May 18, 1983, Deutscher again petitioned the Nevada district court for post-conviction relief for a second time. The district court held an evidentiary hearing. The district court found that Deutscher had not been denied effective trial or appellate counsel. The district court also found that Deutscher had not shown good cause for his failure to file his petition within one year of this court's resolution of his direct appeal, NRS 177.315(3), ¹ or to raise on direct appeal or in his first petition for post-conviction relief, NRS 177.375(2), ² his remaining eleven assignments of error. Finally, the district court found that Deutscher's remaining eleven assignments of error were meritless. The district court denied Deutscher's second petition for post-conviction relief.

Deutscher argues on appeal that the district court erred in denying his second petition for post-conviction relief. We disagree. The district court correctly found that Deutscher had not been denied effective trial or appellate counsel. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). The district court also correctly found that Deutscher had not shown good cause for it to address his remaining eleven assignments of error. NRS 177.315(3); NRS 177.375(2). We, therefore, affirm the...