process." Browning v. State, 124 Nev. 517, 533, 188 P.3d 60, 72 (2008) (internal quotation marks omitted); cf. Witherow v. State, 104 Nev. 721, 724-25, 765 P.2d 1153, 1155-56 (1988) (recognizing that an improper statement may be harmless if the verdict would have been the same absent the statement). Accordingly, we ORDER the judgment of conviction AFFIRMED.

Pickering

ra LtA et 32-6C Parraguirre

, J.

cc: Hon. Robert W. Lane, District Judge Mountain West Lawyers Nye County District Attorney Attorney General/Carson City Nye County Clerk

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