NRS 16.050 – Grounds for challenges for cause.
1. Challenges for cause may be taken on one or more of the following grounds: (a) A want of any of the qualifications prescribed by statute to render a person competent as a juror. (b) Consanguinity or affinity within the third degree to either party. (c) Standing in the relation of debtor and creditor, guardian […]
NRS 16.060 – Challenges for cause tried by court.
Challenges for cause shall be tried by the court. The juror challenged and any other person may be examined as a witness on the trial of the challenge. [1911 CPA § 265; RL § 5207; NCL § 8763]
NRS 16.070 – Jury to be sworn; court may order jury into custody of officer.
1. As soon as the jury is completed, the judge or the judge’s clerk shall administer an oath or affirmation to the jurors in substantially the following form: Do you, and each of you, (solemnly swear, or affirm under the pains and penalties of perjury) that you will well and truly try the case now […]
NRS 16.080 – Discharge and replacement of jurors who become unable or disqualified to perform duties.
After the impaneling of the jury and before verdict, the court may discharge a juror upon a showing of the juror’s sickness, a serious illness or death of a member of the juror’s immediate family, an undue hardship, an extreme inconvenience, any other inability to perform the juror’s duty or a public necessity. Alternate jurors, […]
NRS 16.090 – Order of proceedings after jury has been sworn.
When the jury has been sworn, the trial must proceed in the following order, unless the judge for special reasons otherwise directs: 1. The pleadings may be read by counsel for the respective parties, as they may prefer, or, if not so read, counsel for the respective parties may state the issue during their opening […]
NRS 16.030 – Drawing and examination of jurors; administration of oath or affirmation.
1. Except when the jurors are drawn by a jury commissioner, in preparing for the selection of the jury, the clerk, under the direction of the judge, shall place in a box ballots containing the names of the persons summoned who have appeared and have not been excused. The clerk shall mix the ballots and […]
NRS 16.040 – Challenges to jurors; peremptory challenges.
1. Either party may challenge the jurors. The challenges must be to individual jurors and be peremptory or for cause. Each side is entitled to four peremptory challenges. 2. If there are two or more parties on any side and their interests are diverse, the court may allow additional peremptory challenges, but not more than […]