Navas (Julio) v. State
Navas (Julio) v. State
Opinion
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA
JULIO CESAR NAVAS, No. 68854 Appellant, vs. THE STATE OF NEVADA, Respondent. FILED FEB 17 2017
ORDER OF REMAND This is an appeal from a second amended judgment of conviction, pursuant to a jury verdict, of one count of lewdness with a child under the age of 14 and two counts of open or gross lewdness. Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Jerome M. Polaha, Judge.
Appellant Julio Cesar Navas raises several arguments in this appeal. We remand with instructions for the district court to correct a clerical error.
Navas was initially convicted of one count of sexual assault of a child (count 1), one count of lewdness with a child under the age of 14 (count 2), and two counts of open or gross lewdness (counts 3 and 4). He was sentenced on March 10, 2006; the judgment of conviction was entered the same day and it stated that Navas had spent 1,320 days in presentence confinement. This court affirmed the judgment and sentence on appeal. Navas v. State, Docket No. 46966 (Order of Affirmance, December 12, 2008). Navas then filed a postconviction petition for a writ
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See NRS 176.105. Therefore, we remand with instructions for the district court to amend the judgment of conviction to specify the credits for presentence confinement. 2 The judgment of conviction should be ordered nunc pro tunc to March 10, 2006. To the extent Navas challenges the computation of credit for time served after conviction, the appropriate 1Nunc pro tunc is Latin "now for then" and is defined as "[Moving retroactive legal effect through a court's inherent power." Nunc Pro Tunc, Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014).
2Navas does not dispute that he spent 1,320 days in confinement before conviction.
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3 This order constitutes our final disposition of this matter.
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