PATROCINIO MENDOZA PALACIOS v. CLARK COUNTY DETENTION CENTER (2025)

ORDER DENYING MANDAMUS PETITION

This is an original pro se petition for a writ of mandamus asking this court to direct the Clark County Detention Center to provide petitioner with copies of visitor logs specific to his former counsel.

In the underlying case, petitioner entered an Alford plea in 2022 to attempted sexual assault and incest and was sentenced to serve consecutive prison terms totaling 20 years to life in the aggregate. In this petition, petitioner is seeking copies of “visitor logs, video visit logs and all court mandates of visits by [former counsel]” during his time in the jail (2019-2022).

Petitioner has not provided this court with any documentation or exhibits in support of his petition and necessary for this court's consideration of the petition. See NRAP 21(a)(4) (providing that petitioners must submit an appendix containing all documents “essential to understand[ing] the matters set forth in the petition”). Petitioner bears the burden of showing that extraordinary relief is warranted. See Pan v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 120 Nev. 222, 228, 88 P.3d 840, 844 (2004). We conclude that petitioner has failed to demonstrate our intervention by extraordinary writ is warranted. Smith v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 107 Nev. 674, 677, 818 P.2d 849, 851 (1991) (recognizing that writ relief is an extraordinary remedy and that this court has sole discretion in determining whether to entertain a writ petition). Therefore, we decline to exercise our original jurisdiction in this matter. See NRAP 21(b).

Accordingly, we

ORDER the petition DENIED.

Herndon, C.J.

Parraguirre, J.

Stiglich, J.