JASON ARTHUR ALTHEIDE v. THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA LN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NYE AND THE HONORABLE ROBERT LANE DISTRICT JUDGE (2025)

ORDER DENYING CERTIORARI PETITION

This is an original pro se petition for a writ of certiorari challenging the distinct court's adjudication of petitioner as a habitual criminal.

In separate cases, petitioner entered no contest pleas in 2016 to battery causing substantial bodily harm and battery by a prisoner and was adjudicated as a habitual criminal and sentenced to serve consecutive prison terms of life without the possibility of parole. Petitioner claims that the State agreed not to seek habitual criminal treatment as part of the plea deal and therefore the district court “had no lawful authority to sentence [him] to life without or in any amount in excess of terms specified at plea.”

Having considered the petition and attached documentation, we are not convinced that our extraordinary and discretionary intervention is warranted. Pan v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 120 Nev. 222, 228, 88 P.3d 840, 844 (2004) (observing that the party seeking writ relief bears the burden of showing that such relief 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). As petitioner has failed to demonstrate that our intervention by extraordinary writ is warranted, we decline to exercise our original jurisdiction in this matter. See NRAP 21(b). Accordingly, we

ORDER the petition DENIED.

Hendon, C.J.

Parraguirre, J.

Stiglich, J.