# Atkins v. State

> Nevada Supreme Court · August 28, 1996 · 112 Nev. 1122

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9631476

## Case

- **Full name:** STERLING MARK ATKINS, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF NEVADA, Respondent
- **Court:** Nevada Supreme Court
- **Decided:** August 28, 1996
- **Citations:** 112 Nev. 1122; 923 P.2d 1119; 1996 Nev. LEXIS 135
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Steffen
- **Judges:** Shearing, Steffen, Young, Springer
- **Cited by:** 17 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled on other grounds by McConnell v. State, 120 Nev. 1043 (2004).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9631476

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that Nevada’s sexual assault statute requires a live victim

## Opinion text

Steffen, C. J.,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
For the reasons specified in my dissent in Doyle v. State, 112 Nev. 879 , 921 P.2d 901 (1996), I respectfully dissent from that part of the majority’s opinion that reverses Atkins’ conviction for sexual assault. I concur in all other aspects of the majority’s opinion.

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