Castillo v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that this court reviews a district court’s decision to give or refuse to give a nonstatutory jury instruction for an abuse of discretion
• holding that future dangerousness argument was properly supported by the evidence, which included defendant's own statements to psychologist
• holding that future dangerousness argument was properly supported by the evidence, which included defendant’s own statements to psychologist
• holding that it is improper to present jurors with choice of an execution sentence for the defendant or responsibility for the death of an innocent future victim
• explaining that the test for evaluating whether the prosecutor’s inappropriate comment warrants a new penalty hearing is whether the comment so infected the hearing with unfairness as to make the resulting verdict a denial of due process
• inappropriate comment by prosecutor warrants reversal only if it so infects the proceeding with unfairness as to make the result a denial of due process

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Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Evans v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-07-24· cited 144×
• Tavares v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-09-17· cited 101×
• Blake v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-10-20· cited 81×
• Leonard v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-12-09· cited 80×
• Archanian v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2006-11-09· cited 59×
• Harte v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-12-04· cited 52×
• Schoels v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-10-27· cited 26×
• Castillo v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-05-30· cited 20×
• JOHNSON (DONTE) VS. STATE (DEATH PENALTY-PC)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2017-10-05
• CASTILLO (WILLIAM) VS. STATE (DEATH PENALTY-PC)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-05-30
• Da Silva Vs. Da Silva
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2021-10-15