MATTHEW DWAYNE MYERS v. THE STATE OF NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND WARDEN (2024)

ORDER OF AFFIRMANCE

Matthew Dwayne Myers appeals from a district court order denying a postconviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the computation of time served. First Judicial District Court, Carson City; James Todd Russell, Judge.

In his petition, filed on April 28, 2023, Myers claimed the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) is failing to apply statutory credits to his minimum and maximum aggregated sentence. He also claimed that pursuant to a settlement agreement between the United States and Nevada governments, he is entitled to labor and “camptime” credits. Myers neither alleged nor demonstrated that he had exhausted his administrative remedies prior to filing the petition. Accordingly, we conclude the district court did not err by denying his petition,¹ see NRS 34.724(1), (2)(c), and we

ORDER the judgment of the district court AFFIRMED.

Gibbons, C.J.

Bulla, J.

Westbrook, J.

FOOTNOTES

1.   The district court should have declined to reach the merits of Myers’ petition because he did not demonstrate that he had first exhausted his administrative remedies. We nevertheless affirm for the reason stated above. See Wyatt v. State, 86 Nev. 294, 298, 468 P.2d 338, 341 (1970) (holding a correct result will not be reversed simply because it is based on the wrong reason).