Monday, July 26, 2010 | 3:16 p.m.
CARSON CITY – Anthony “Popeye” Prentice, serving a life term without parole for the murder of his roommate in Las Vegas, didn’t convince the Nevada Supreme Court that he should be entitled to a new trial.
The court Monday rejected Prentice’s claims that his attorneys at trial and on his first appeal were both ineffective.
Prentice complained his trial attorney failed to object to the admission of evidence of Prentice’s racist beliefs and to evidence that he got in a fight while he was in jail.
He said his attorney on his prior appeal should have argued that he was not read his Miranda rights before he gave a statement to the authorities.
Prentice, now 26 years old and held at the state prison in Ely, was convicted of first degree murder in the 2002 death of Daniel Miller, 58, the owner of American Driver Education. Miller was stabbed 128 times and had a swastika carved on his back.
He argued his friend James Harrison, also known as Evil, was the one who killed Miller. Harrison received the death penalty on his conviction. His appeal is now before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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