1. The Office of State Public Defender is hereby created within the Department of Indigent Defense Services. 2. The Governor shall appoint the State Public Defender for a term of 4 years, and until a successor is appointed and qualified. 3. The State Public Defender is responsible to the Executive Director. 4. The State Public […]
1. The State Public Defender may employ: (a) Deputy state public defenders in the unclassified service of the State. (b) Clerical, investigative and other necessary staff in the classified service of the State. 2. Each deputy state public defender must be an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Nevada, and shall not […]
1. The Office of the State Public Defender shall be in Carson City, Nevada, and the Buildings and Grounds Section of the State Public Works Division of the Department of Administration shall provide necessary office space. 2. The State Public Defender may establish branch offices necessary to perform the State Public Defender’s duties. The State […]
1. The State Public Defender may contract with attorneys licensed to practice law in the State of Nevada and with county public defenders to provide services required by this chapter if it is impracticable for the State Public Defender or the State Public Defender’s deputies to provide such services for any reason. 2. All such […]
1. The State Public Defender may, before being designated as counsel for that person pursuant to NRS 171.188, interview an indigent person when the indigent person has been arrested and confined for a public offense or for questioning on suspicion of having committed a public offense. 2. The State Public Defender shall, when designated pursuant […]
1. The State Public Defender shall submit: (a) A report on or before December 1 of each year to the Executive Director and to each participating county containing a statement of: (1) The number of cases that are pending in each participating county; (2) The number of cases in each participating county that were closed […]
Except as provided in subsections 4 and 5 of NRS 180.060, the provisions of NRS 180.010 to 180.100, inclusive, apply only to counties in which the office of public defender has not been created pursuant to the provisions of chapter 260 of NRS. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1412; A 1975, 42; 1977, 338; 2019, […]
The provisions of this chapter do not exclude any protection or sanction that the law otherwise provides. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1412)
1. Each fiscal year the State Public Defender may collect from the counties amounts which do not exceed those authorized by the Legislature for use of the State Public Defender’s services during that year. The amount that a county may be required to pay must not exceed the maximum amount determined using the formula established […]
