Opinion
No. 64386
12-13-2013
MARK CORDOVA, Petitioner, v. THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF CLARK; AND THE HONORABLE MICHAEL VILLANI, DISTRICT JUDGE, Respondents, and THE STATE OF NEVADA, Real Party in Interest.
An unpublished order shall not be regarded as precedent and shall not be cited as legal authority. SCR 123.
ORDER DENYING PETITION
This original petition for a writ of mandamus asks this court to order the respondent district court to grant petitioner's pretrial petition for a writ of habeas corpus and dismiss a charge of statutory sexual seduction. We are not convinced that our intervention is warranted for two reasons. First, petitioner has not provided an appendix that includes a copy of any order, parts of the record before the respondent district court, or any other document "that may be essential to understand the matters set forth in the petition." NRAP 21(a)(4). Second, our review of a pretrial probable cause determination through an original writ petition is disfavored, see Kussman v. District Court, 96 Nev. 544, 545-46, 612 P.2d 679, 680 (1980), and petitioner has not demonstrated that his challenge to the probable cause determination fits the exceptions we have made for purely legal issues, see Ostman v. Eighth Judicial Dist Court, 107 Nev. 563, 565, 816 P.2d 458, 459-60 (1991); State v. Babayan, 106 Nev. 155, 174, 787 P.2d 805, 819-20 (1990). For these reasons, we
ORDER the petition DENIED.
_________________, C.J.
Pickering
_________________, J.
Hardesty
_________________, J.
Cherry
cc: Hon. Michael Villani, District Judge
The Pariente Law Firm, P.C.
Kelly & Sullivan, Ltd.
Attorney General/Carson City
Clark County District Attorney
Eighth District Court Clerk