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Robert Linzy BELLON, Petitioner, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada, IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF CLARK, Respondent, Jay P. Raman, Chief Deputy District Attorney; and Steven B. Wolfson, Clark County District Attorney, Real Parties in Interest.
ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS
This original pro se petition for a writ of mandamus seeks an order directing the district court to file a notice of entry of order so that petitioner may file an appeal from the district court's denial of his motion to modify his sentence.
Contrary to petitioner's assertion otherwise, the district court entered an order denying petitioner's motion for modification of sentence on December 23, 2019. Petitioner filed an appeal from that order, which this court dismissed for lack of jurisdiction because petitioner filed an untimely notice of appeal. Bellon v. State, Docket No. 80657 (Order Dismissing Appeal, March 26, 2020). To the extent petitioner contends that the district court was required file a notice of entry of order to trigger the time to file an appeal, he is incorrect. See Edwards v. State, 112 Nev. 704, 709, 918 P.2d 321, 325 (1996) (“NRAP 4(b) provides that ‘[i]n a criminal case, the notice of appeal by a defendant shall be filed in the district court within thirty (30) days after the entry of the judgment or order appealed from.’ ”). Therefore, we conclude that this court's intervention by way of extraordinary writ is not warranted. See NRS 34.160; NRAP 21(b)(1); Pan v. Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, 120 Nev. 222, 228, 88 P.3d 840, 844 (2004) (“Petitioned[ ] carr[ies] the burden of demonstrating that extraordinary relief is warranted.”). Accordingly, we
ORDER the petition DENIED.
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Docket No: No. 81251
Decided: June 19, 2020
Court: Supreme Court of Nevada.
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