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Wednesday, July 6, 2005 | 9:10 a.m.
SUN CAPITAL BUREAU
CARSON CITY -- A Las Vegas girl who was 16-years old when she fatally shot another girl in 1998 has lost her appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court.
Amalia Boyer pleaded guilty in May 1999 to the shooting of 18-year-old Riki Jemison, the girlfriend of Boyer's ex-boyfriend,
The court Tuesday rejected her petition for a writ of habeas corpus on grounds she filed it past the deadline and there was no good excuse.
The court said Boyer "argued that her delay should be excused because she was only 16-years-old at the time of conviction, was without an education and had no understanding of a post-conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
"None of these reasons amounts to good cause," said the court in upholding the decision of District Judge Donald Mosley, who originally denied the writ petition.
Boyer was sentenced to two consecutive terms of 10-25 years in prison.
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