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Nevada Supreme Court Directs Hearing to Assess Possible Prejudice to Foreign National from Failure of Consular Notification in Capital Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2013

References

1 Gutierrez v. State, No. 53506, 2012 Nev. Unpub. LEXIS 1317 (Sept. 19, 2012) (order of reversal and remand).

2 In 2004, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals concluded in Torres v. State, 120 P.3d 1184, 1188 (Okla. Crim. App. 2004), that Torres was prejudiced by a Vienna Convention violation. The governor of Oklahoma had previously commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. Id. at 1186; see Crook, John R., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 99 AJIL 691, 695 (2005) [Find Full Text] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar].

3 Case Concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mex. v. U.S.), 2004 ICJ REP. 12 (Mar. 31).

4 Gutierrez, 2012 Nev. Unpub. LEXIS at 37 (footnotes and citations omitted).

5 Id. at 11.

6 Id. at 1213.

7 Id. at 1316 (Parraguirre & Hardesty, JJ., dissenting).