Nevada Supreme Court· 6/1/1989

Lyons v. State

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775 P.2d 219
105 Nev. 317
1989 Nev. LEXIS 61

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finding the use of confederates and other devices to purposefully alter the criteria that determines the outcome of a game to be proscribed by statute
“ ‘The Constitutional requirement of definiteness is violated by a criminal statute that fails to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute.’ ” (quoting United States v. Harriss, 347 U.S. 612, 617 (1954))
\It would be an affront to justice and due process to hold [the defendant] to his plea when the conduct upon which the plea was entered did not occur and when the underlying conduct upon which the original charges were based was not criminal.\
\It would be an affront to justice and due process to hold [the defendant] to his plea when the conduct upon which the plea was entered did not occur and when the underlying conduct upon which the original charges were based was not criminal.\

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Judges: Steffen, Mowbray, Springer, Zenoff

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