Opinion
No. 69862
11-18-2016
JONATHAN EDWARD WATKINS, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF NEVADA, Respondent.
ORDER OF AFFIRMANCE
This is an appeal from a district court order denying a motion to vacate illegal sentence and judgment of conviction. Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Patrick Flanagan, Judge.
This appeal has been submitted for decision without oral argument. NRAP 34(f)(3). --------
Appellant Jonathan Edward Watkins claims the district court erred by denying his motion to vacate illegal sentence and judgment of conviction. In his motion filed on December 10, 2015, Watkins claimed that, because the District Attorney who was in office when the information was filed was not bonded as required by NRS 252.030, the information charging him with murder and robbery was invalid, the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to convict him, and his conviction and sentence are illegal.
Watkins failed to demonstrate that his sentence was facially illegal or the district court lacked jurisdiction. See Edwards v. State, 112 Nev. 704, 708, 918 P.2d 321, 324 (1996). Even assuming the District Attorney was not bonded as required by NRS 252.030, the failure to obtain such a bond would not have divested the district court of jurisdiction. See Nev. Const. art. 6, § 6; NRS 171.010. Therefore, we conclude the district court did not err in denying Watkins's motion, and we
ORDER the judgment of the district court AFFIRMED.
/s/_________, C.J.
Gibbons
/s/_________, J.
Tao
/s/_________, J.
Silver cc: Hon. Patrick Flanagan, District Judge
Jonathan Edward Watkins
Attorney General/Carson City
Washoe County District Attorney
Washoe District Court Clerk