By Cy Ryan
Las Vegas Sun
CARSON CITY — A state prison inmate is getting under the skin of Nevada Supreme Court justices.
The court has denied the seven petitions filed by prisoner Michael Steve Cox, and he had four previous appeals rejected.
According to prison records, Cox is serving a life term he began serving in 1993 after a Clark County murder conviction. A woman with whom Cox was sharing a North Las Vegas motel room was found strangled to death on March 21, 1990. Cox was later arrested in Arizona and claimed self-defense, saying the woman had exited the motel room shower in the form of a demon that attacked him, according to prosecution records.
The court said Monday the continued filing of “meritless petitions” may result in stopping his filing of appeals without paying the required fees. The appeals were from the district courts in Ely, Carson City and Las Vegas.
District Judge Dan Papez, in a 2012 decision in Ely, said Cox has filed “dozens” of suits “to harass and delay the judicial system.” He called these handwritten petitions “redundant and scandalous.”
Full story: Nevada justices may be growing weary of inmate’s frequent appeals