Gonzalez (Hector) v. State

• Court: Nevada Supreme Court
• Decided: December 10, 2014
• Docket: 65275
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

wrong but review the court's application of the law to those facts de novo. Lader v. Warden, 121 Nev. 682, 686, 120 P.3d 1164, 1166 (2005). Here, the district court conducted an evidentiary hearing and heard testimony from Gonzalez and one of the two attorneys who represented him at trial. The district court found that Gonzalez failed to demonstrate that trial counsel were deficient or prejudice. See Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687-88, 694 (1984); Kirksey v. State, 112 Nev. 980, 987, 923 P.2d 1102, 1107 (1996); see also Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. „ 131 S. Ct. 1388, 1408 (2011) ("Surmounting Strickland's high bar is never an easy task." (quotation marks omitted) (alteration omitted)). We conclude that the district court's findings are supported by substantial evidence, see Riley v. State, 110 Nev. 638, 647, 878 P.2d 272, 278 (1994), and the district court did not err by rejecting Gonzalez's ineffective-assistance claims. Accordingly, we ORDER the judgment of the district court AFFIRMED.

C.J. Gibbons

J. Pickering

cc: Hon. Elissa F. Cadish, District Judge Terrence M. Jackson Attorney General/Carson City Clark County District Attorney Eighth District Court Clerk

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