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NRS 172.239 – Legal counsel for certain persons who appear before grand jury.

1. A person whose indictment the district attorney intends to seek or the grand jury on its own motion intends to return may be accompanied by legal counsel during any appearance before the grand jury. 2. The legal counsel who accompanies a person pursuant to subsection 1 may advise his or her client but shall […]

NRS 172.259 – Publication of fact that no indictment was issued by grand jury.

After a grand jury investigation is concluded: 1. A person who was the subject of the investigation but against whom an indictment was not returned; or 2. A district attorney, with the permission of that person, may make public the fact that no indictment was issued as a result of the grand jury’s investigation. (Added […]

NRS 172.145 – Defendant entitled to submit statement regarding preliminary hearing which grand jury must receive; grand jury required to hear and district attorney required to submit known evidence which will explain away charge; invitations and issuance of process for witnesses.

1. The grand jury is not bound to hear evidence for the defendant, except that the defendant is entitled to submit a statement which the grand jury must receive providing whether a preliminary hearing was held concerning the matter and, if so, that the evidence presented at the preliminary hearing was considered insufficient to warrant […]

NRS 172.155 – Degree of evidence to warrant indictment; objection.

1. The grand jury ought to find an indictment when all the evidence before them, taken together, establishes probable cause to believe that an offense has been committed and that the defendant has committed it. 2. The defendant may object to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the indictment only by application for a […]

NRS 172.175 – Matters into which grand jury shall and may inquire.

1. Each grand jury that is not impaneled for a specific limited purpose shall inquire into: (a) The case of every person imprisoned in the jail of the county, on a criminal charge, against whom an indictment has not been found or an information or complaint filed. (b) The condition and management of any public […]