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Corcoran v. Baker

COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEVADA
May 21, 2019
No. 76384-COA (Nev. App. May. 21, 2019)

Opinion

No. 76384-COA

05-21-2019

DANIEL WALTER CORCORAN, Appellant, v. RENEE BAKER, WARDEN, Respondent.


ORDER OF AFFIRMANCE

Daniel Walter Corcoran appeals from an order of the district court dismissing a postconviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed on March 13, 2018. Eleventh Judicial District Court, Pershing County; Jim C. Shirley, Judge.

This appeal has been submitted for decision without oral argument. NEAP 34(f)(3).

In his petition, Corcoran claimed the Nevada Department of Corrections improperly declined to apply credits toward the minimum term of his sentence for the deadly weapon enhancement of his sentence for first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon. The district court dismissed Corcoran's petition as procedurally barred because it was a successive petition and it was an abuse of the writ as he raised claims new and different from those raised in his previous petition. See NRS 34.810(2).

It does not appear Corcoran appealed from the district court's order disposing of his previous petition challenging the computation of time served filed on March 30, 2017. --------

We conclude the district court did not err by dismissing Corcoran's petition as procedurally barred because the petition was successive and an abuse of the writ, and Corcoran failed to allege good cause to overcome the procedural bars. See NRS 34.810(3). Accordingly, we

ORDER the judgment of the district court AFFIRMED.

/s/_________, C.J.

Gibbons

/s/_________, J.

Tao

/s/_________, J.

Bulla cc: Hon. Jim C. Shirley, District Judge

Daniel Walter Corcoran

Attorney General/Carson City

Pershing County Clerk


Summaries of

Corcoran v. Baker

COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEVADA
May 21, 2019
No. 76384-COA (Nev. App. May. 21, 2019)
Case details for

Corcoran v. Baker

Case Details

Full title:DANIEL WALTER CORCORAN, Appellant, v. RENEE BAKER, WARDEN, Respondent.

Court:COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEVADA

Date published: May 21, 2019

Citations

No. 76384-COA (Nev. App. May. 21, 2019)