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Combined Case Information: 83316
Short Caption:	ALFARO (WILLIAM) VS. STATE	Court:	Supreme Court
		Related Case(s):	90458, 90458-COA
Lower Court Case(s):	Washoe Co. - Second Judicial District - CR170442	Classification:	Criminal Appeal - Life - Direct
Disqualifications:		Case Status:	Remittitur Issued/Case Closed
Replacement:	Senior Justice Gibbons for Justice Silver	Panel Assigned:	Panel
To SP/Judge:		SP Status:
Oral Argument:	12/14/2022 at 1:30 PM	Oral Argument Location:	Carson City
Submission Date:	04/28/2023	How Submitted:	On Documents

+ Party Information
Role	Party Name	Represented By
Appellant	William Rene Alfaro	Michael L. Becker (Las Vegas Defense Group, LLC) Michael V. Castillo (Las Vegas Defense Group, LLC)
Respondent	The State of Nevada	Aaron D. Ford (Attorney General/Carson City) Jennifer P. Noble (Washoe County District Attorney)

Docket Entries
Date	Type	Description	Pending?	Document
08/03/2021	Filing Fee	Appeal Filing Fee Waived. Criminal. (SC)
08/03/2021	Notice of Appeal Documents	Filed Notice of Appeal. Appeal docketed in the Supreme Court this day. (Docketing statement mailed to counsel for appellant.) (SC)		21-22543
08/03/2021	Notice of Appeal Documents	Filed (SEALED) District Court Minutes. (SC)
08/24/2021	Docketing Statement	Filed Docketing Statement Criminal Appeals. (SC)		21-24674
11/08/2021	Transcript	Filed Notice from Court Reporter. Isolde Zihn stating that the requested transcripts were delivered. Dates of transcripts: 4/26/21, 4/27/21, 4/28/21, 4/29/21, 4/30/21, 5/1/21, 5/2/21, 5/3/21, 5/4/21, and 7/7/21. (SC)		21-32072
12/01/2021	Motion	Filed Appellant's Motion to Expand Time to File Appellant's Opening Brief and Appendix. (SC)		21-34314
12/03/2021	Order/Procedural	Filed Order Granting Motion. Appellant's Opening Brief and Appendix due: January 18, 2022. (SC).		21-34599
01/18/2022	Motion	Filed Appellant's Motion to Extend Time to File Opening Brief and Appendix. (SC)		22-01780
01/28/2022	Order/Procedural	Filed Order Granting Motion. Appellant's Opening Brief and Appendix due: February 1, 2022. (SC)		22-02993
02/01/2022	Motion	Filed Appellant's Motion to Extend Time to File Opening Brief and Appendix. (Third Request) (SC)		22-03440
02/03/2022	Notice/Incoming	Filed Respondent's Notice of Non-Opposition to Expand Time to File Opening Brief and Appendix. (SC)		22-03809
02/07/2022	Appendix	Filed Appellant's Appendix to Opening Brief. Vol. 1 (SC)		22-04020
02/07/2022	Appendix	Filed Appellant's Appendix to Opening Brief. Vol. 2 (SC)		22-04021
02/07/2022	Appendix	Filed Appellant's Appendix to Opening Brief. Vol. 3 (SC)		22-04022
02/07/2022	Appendix	Filed Appellant's Appendix to Opening Brief. Vol. 4 (SC)		22-04023
02/07/2022	Brief	Filed Appellant's Opening Brief.(SC)		22-04152
02/07/2022	Motion	Filed Appellant's Motion for Permission to Exceed Page Limit. (SC)		22-04154
02/07/2022	Motion	Filed Appellant's Motion for Order for Transmission of Bulky Evidence. (SC)		22-04155
02/09/2022	Order/Procedural	Filed Order. Appellant has filed a motion for a third extension of time to file the opening brief and appendix, a motion to exceed the page limitation of NRAP 32(a)(7)(A)(i), and a motion to transmit bulky evidence. The motion for an extension of time is granted to the following extent. The appendix was filed on February 7, 2022. This court defers ruling on the motion to exceed the page limitation. Appellant shall have 7 days from the date of this order to file and serve an amended certificate of compliance for the opening brief that states either the number of words in the brief or the number of lines of monospaced type in the brief. The motion to transmit bulky evidence is granted. NRAP 30(d). The clerk of the district court shall have 14 days from the date of this order to transmit to this court original State's Exhibit 43. (SC)		22-04400
02/14/2022	Notice/Incoming	Filed Appellant's Amended Certificate of Compliance. (SC)		22-04885
02/16/2022	Order/Procedural	Filed Order. Appellant's amended certificate of compliance states that the opening brief contains 8,396 words. Because the brief does not exceed the type-volume limitation of NRAP 32(a)(7)(A)(ii), the February 7, 2022, motion to exceed the page limitation is denied as moot. Respondent shall have 30 days from the date of this order to file and serve the answering brief. (SC)		22-05177
03/14/2022	Motion	Filed Respondent's Motion to Extend Time to File Answering Brief. (SC)		22-08026
03/14/2022	Notice/Outgoing	Issued Notice Motion/Stipulation Approved for Answering Brief. Due date April 18, 2022. (SC)		22-08037
04/18/2022	Brief	Filed Respondent's Answering Brief. (SC)		22-12216
04/18/2022	Brief	Filed Respondent's Answering Brief. (REJECTED PER NOTICE FILED ON 4/19/22) (SC)
04/18/2022	Brief	Filed Respondent's Answering Brief. (REJECTED PER NOTICE FILED ON 4/19/22) (SC)
04/18/2022	Brief	Filed Respondent's Answering Brief. (REJECTED PER NOTICE FILED ON 4/19/22) (SC)
04/18/2022	Brief	Filed Respondent's Answering Brief. (REJECTED PER NOTICE FILED ON 4/19/22) (SC)
04/18/2022	Brief	Filed Respondent's Answering Brief. (REJECTED PER NOTICE FILED ON 4/19/22) (SC)
04/19/2022	Notice/Outgoing	Issued Notice of Rejection of Deficient Appendix. Corrected appendix due: 5 days. (SC)		22-12279
04/19/2022	Appendix	Filed Respondent's Appendix to Answering Brief. Vol. 1. (SC)		22-12438
04/21/2022	Motion	Filed Respondent's Motion to Transmit Exhibit. (SC)		22-12588
04/26/2022	Order/Procedural	Filed Order Denying Motion. Respondent has filed a motion to transmit original exhibit 43. Appellant previously filed a motion to transmit this exhibit. The motion was granted and the exhibit was received in this court on February 24, 2022. Accordingly, the motion is denied as moot. (SC)		22-13189
05/19/2022	Order/Clerk's	Filed Order Granting Extension Per Telephonic Request. Appellant's reply brief due: June 1, 2022. (SC)		22-15855
06/01/2022	Motion	Filed Appellant's Motion to Expand Time to File Appellant's Reply Brief. (SC)		22-17428
06/13/2022	Brief	Filed Appellant's Reply Brief. (SC)		22-18792
06/14/2022	Order/Procedural	Filed Order. Appellant has filed a motion for a second extension of time to file the reply brief. The motion is granted. The reply brief was filed on June 13, 2022. (SC)		22-18839
06/14/2022	Case Status Update	Briefing Completed/To Screening. (SC)
11/02/2022	Order/Procedural	Filed Order Scheduling Oral Argument. This matter is scheduled for oral argument on December 14, 2022, 1:30 p.m. in Carson City. Argument shall be limited to 30 minutes. (SC)		22-34373
11/29/2022	Notice/Outgoing	Issued Oral Argument Reminder Notice. (SC)		22-37336
12/14/2022	Case Status Update	Oral argument held this day. Case submitted for decision. Before the Northern NV Panel. EC/KP/MG. (SC)
04/28/2023	Case Status Update	Submitted for Decision. (SC)
08/24/2023	Opinion/Dispositional	Filed Authored Opinion. "Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded." Before: Pickering/Cadish/Gibbons. Author: Pickering, J. Majority: Pickering/Cadish/Gibbons. fn1 [The Honorable Mark Gibbons, Senior Justice, participated in the decision of this matter under general order of assignment.] 139 Nev. Adv. Opn. No. 24. NNP22-KP/EC/MG. (SC).		23-27667
09/19/2023	Remittitur	Issued Remittitur. Returned Original State's Exhibit 43 this day. (SC)		23-30620
09/19/2023	Case Status Update	Remittitur Issued/Case Closed.(SC)
01/03/2024	Remittitur	Filed Remittitur. Received by District Court Clerk on 09/22/23. (SC)		23-30620

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