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 172.241 – Right of certain persons to appear before grand jury; notice of consideration of indictment; withholding of notice; effect of inadequate notice.
1. A person whose indictment the district attorney intends to seek or the grand jury on its own motion intends to return, but who has not been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury, may testify before the grand jury if the person requests to do so and executes a valid waiver in writing of […]
NRS 172.245 – Secrecy of proceedings of grand jury; permitted disclosures; penalty.
1. The disclosure of: (a) Evidence presented to the grand jury; (b) Information obtained by the grand jury; (c) The results of an investigation made by the grand jury; and (d) An event occurring or a statement made in the presence of the grand jury other than its deliberations and the vote of a juror, […]
NRS 172.255 – Finding and return of presentment or indictment; effect of failure to indict.
1. A presentment or indictment may be found only upon the concurrence of 12 or more jurors. 2. The jurors shall vote separately on each person and each count included in a presentment or indictment. 3. The presentment or indictment must be returned by the grand jury to a judge in open court or, in […]
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 172.165 – Grand juror must declare knowledge as to commission of public offense; investigation.
If a member of the grand jury knows or has reason to believe that a public offense has been committed, which is triable within the jurisdiction of the district court which has impaneled such grand jury, the member must declare such knowledge or belief to the member’s fellow jurors, who shall thereupon investigate the alleged […]
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 […]
NRS 172.185 – Grand jury entitled to enter jails and examine records.
The grand jury shall be entitled to free access, at all reasonable times, to all public prisons and to the examination without charge of all public records within its district. (Added to NRS by 1967, 1409)