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NV Rev Stat § 174.385 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.385 - Contempt.

Failure by any person without an adequate excuse to obey a subpoena of a court, a prosecuting attorney or an attorney for a defendant served upon the person or, in the case of a subpoena issued by a prosecuting attorney or an attorney for a defendant, delivered to the person and accepted, shall be deemed a contempt of the court from which the subpoena issued or, in the case of a subpoena issued by a prosecuting attorney or an attorney for a defendant, of the court in which a preliminary hearing is to be held, an investigation is pending or an indictment, information or complaint is to be tried.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1421; A 1979, 130; 1995, 1082; 2013, 1203)
NV Rev Stat § 174.395 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.395 - Short title.

NRS 174.395 to 174.445, inclusive, may be cited as the Uniform Act To Secure the Attendance of Witnesses From Without a State in Criminal Proceedings.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1421)
NV Rev Stat § 174.405 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.405 - Definitions.

As used in NRS 174.395 to 174.445, inclusive:  1. "State" shall include any territory of the United States and the District of Columbia.  2. "Summons" shall include a subpoena, order or other notice requiring the appearance of a witness.  3. "Witness" shall include a person whose testimony is desired in any proceeding or investigation by a grand jury or in a criminal action, prosecution or proceeding.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1421)
NV Rev Stat § 174.415 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.415 - Summoning witness in this State to testify in another state.

  1. If a judge of a court of record in any state which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within that state to attend and testify in this State certifies under the seal of such court that there is a criminal prosecution pending in such court, or that a grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence, that a person being within this State is a material witness in such prosecution, or grand jury investigation, and that the person’s presence will be required for a specified number of days, upon presentation of such certificate to any judge of a court of record in the county in which such person is, such judge shall fix a time and place for a hearing, and shall make an order directing the witness to appear at a time and place certain for the hearing.  2. If at a hearing the judge determines that the witness is material and necessary, that it will not cause undue hardship to the witness to be compelled to attend and testify in the prosecution or a grand jury investigation in the other state, and that the laws of the state in which the prosecution is pending, or grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence (and of any other state through which the witness may be required to pass by ordinary course of travel), will give the witness protection from arrest and the service of civil and criminal process, the judge shall issue a summons, with a copy of the certificate attached, directing the witness to attend and testify in the court where the prosecution is pending, or where a grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence at a time and place specified in the summons. In any such hearing the certificate shall be prima facie evidence of all the facts stated therein.  3. If the certificate recommends that the witness be taken into immediate custody and delivered to an officer of the requesting state to assure the witness’s attendance in the requesting state, such judge may, in lieu of notification of the hearing, direct that such witness be forthwith brought before the judge for hearings; and the judge at the hearing being satisfied of the desirability of such custody and delivery, for which determination the certificate shall be prima facie proof of such desirability, may, in lieu of issuing subpoena or summons, order that the witness be forthwith taken into custody and delivered to an officer of the requesting state.  4. If the witness, who is summoned as above provided, after being paid or tendered by some properly authorized person the amount required by NRS 50.225 for subsistence and travel expenses, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, the witness shall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in this State.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1421; A 1987, 550)
NV Rev Stat § 174.425 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.425 - Witness from another state summoned to testify in this State.

  1. If a person in any state, which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within its borders to attend and testify in criminal prosecutions, or grand jury investigations commenced or about to commence, in this State, is a material witness in a prosecution pending in a court of record in this State, or in a grand jury investigation which has commenced or is about to commence, a judge of such a court may issue a certificate under the seal of the court stating these facts and specifying the number of days the witness will be required. The certificate may include a recommendation that the witness be taken into immediate custody and delivered to an officer of this State to ensure the witness’s attendance in this State. This certificate must be presented to a judge of a court of record in the county in which the witness is found.  2. If the witness is summoned to attend and testify in this State the witness is entitled to receive the amount required by NRS 50.225 for subsistence and travel expenses. A witness who has appeared in accordance with the provisions of the summons shall not be required to remain within this State a longer period of time than the period mentioned in the certificate unless otherwise ordered by the court. If such witness, after coming into this State, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, the witness shall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in this State.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1422; A 1987, 551)
NV Rev Stat § 174.435 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.435 - Exemption from arrest and service of process.

  1. If a person comes into this state in obedience to a summons directing the person to attend and testify in this state the person shall not while in this state pursuant to such summons be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before the person’s entrance into this state under the summons.  2. If a person passes through this state while going to another state in obedience to a summons to attend and testify in that state or while returning therefrom, the person shall not while so passing through this state be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before the person’s entrance into this state under the summons.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1423)
NV Rev Stat § 174.445 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.445 - Uniformity of interpretation.

NRS 174.395 to 174.445, inclusive, shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law of the states which enact them.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1423)
NV Rev Stat § 174.455 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.455 - Ground for removal; application not to be granted until after voir dire examination; appeal of order changing or refusing to change place of trial.

  1. A criminal action prosecuted by indictment, information or complaint may be removed from the court in which it is pending, on application of the defendant or state, on the ground that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the county where the indictment, information or complaint is pending.  2. An application for removal of a criminal action shall not be granted by the court until after the voir dire examination has been conducted and it is apparent to the court that the selection of a fair and impartial jury cannot be had in the county where the indictment, information or complaint is pending.  3. An order in a criminal action changing or refusing to change the place of trial is appealable only on appeal from the final judgment.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1423; A 1969, 378; 1981, 1707)
NV Rev Stat § 174.464 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.464 - Application for removal: Making and service; hearing and determination in absence of defendant.

  1. The application for removal must be made in open court, and in writing, verified by the affidavit of the defendant or district attorney, and a copy of the affidavit must be served on the adverse party, at least 1 day prior to the hearing of the application.  2. The application may be supported or opposed by other affidavits or other evidence, or other witnesses may be examined in open court.  3. Whenever the affidavit of the defendant shows that the defendant cannot safely appear in person to make such application, because popular prejudice is so great as to endanger the defendant’s personal safety, and such statement is sustained by other testimony, such application may be made by the defendant’s attorney and must be heard and determined in the absence of the defendant, notwithstanding the charge then pending against the defendant be a felony, and the defendant has not, at the time of such application, been arrested or given bail, or been arraigned, or pleaded to the indictment or information.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1423)
NV Rev Stat § 174.475 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.475 - Order transferring action: When to be made.

If the court is satisfied that the representations of the applicant are true, an order must be made transferring the action to the district court of some convenient county free from a like objection.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1423)
NV Rev Stat § 174.485 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.485 - Entry of order of removal; transmittal of papers.

The order of removal must be entered on the minutes, and the clerk must immediately make out and transmit to the court to which the action is removed a certified copy of the order of removal, record, pleadings, and proceedings in the action, including the undertakings for the appearance of the defendant and of the witnesses.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1423)
NV Rev Stat § 174.495 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.495 - Proceedings on removal when defendant is in custody.

If the defendant is in custody, the order must direct the defendant’s removal and the defendant must be forthwith removed by the sheriff of the county where the defendant is imprisoned, to the custody of the sheriff of the county to which the action is removed.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1423)
NV Rev Stat § 174.505 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.505 - Authority of court to which action is removed; transmission of original papers.

The court to which the action is removed must proceed to trial and judgment therein as if the action had been commenced in such court. If it is necessary to have any of the original pleadings or other papers before such court, the court from which the action is removed must, at any time, on the application of the district attorney or the defendant, order such papers or pleadings to be transmitted by the clerk, a certified copy thereof being retained.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1424)
NV Rev Stat § 174.511 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.511 - Right of State to trial within 60 days after arraignment; exceptions.

The State, upon demand, has the right to a trial of the defendant within 60 days after arraignment. The court may postpone the trial if:  1. It finds that more time is needed by the defendant to prepare a defense; or  2. The number of other cases pending in the court prohibits the acceptance of the case for trial within that time.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 1670)
NV Rev Stat § 174.515 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.515 - Postponement: When and how ordered; court may require depositions of and undertakings by witnesses; court may consider adverse effect upon child who is victim or witness.

  1. When an action is called for trial, or at any time previous thereto, the court may, upon sufficient cause shown by either party by affidavit, direct the trial to be postponed to another day. In all cases where a continuance is granted upon the application of either party the court may require, as a condition of granting such continuance, that the party applying therefor consent to taking, forthwith, or at any time to be fixed by the court, of the deposition of any witness summoned by the opposite party whose deposition has not previously been taken.  2. The court also may require all witnesses to enter into undertakings in such sum as the court may order, with or without sureties, to appear and testify on the day to which the case may be continued, but any witness who is unable to procure sureties for the witness’s attendance may be discharged on the witness’s own recognizance, upon giving a deposition in the manner prescribed in NRS 174.175 and 174.205.  3. If the trial involves acts committed against a child less than 16 years of age or involving acts witnessed by a child less than 16 years of age, the court may consider any adverse effect a continuance or other postponement might have upon the mental or emotional health or well-being of the child. The court may deny a continuance or other postponement if the delay will adversely affect the mental or emotional health or well-being of the child.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1424; A 1989, 588; 1995, 400)
NV Rev Stat § 174.519 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 174 - Arraignment and Preparation for Trial|NRS 174.519 - Request for preference in setting date for trial where child is victim or witness; court may consider effect on child of delay in commencement of trial.

If the trial involves acts committed against a child less than 16 years of age or involving acts witnessed by a child less than 16 years of age, the prosecuting attorney shall request the court, in its discretion, to give preference in setting a date for the trial of the defendant. In making a ruling, the court may consider the effect a delay in the commencement of the trial might have on the mental or emotional health or well-being of the child.  (Added to NRS by 1995, 400; A 1997, 511)
NV Rev Stat § 175.011 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.011 - Trial by jury.

  1. In a district court, cases required to be tried by jury must be so tried unless the defendant waives a jury trial in writing with the approval of the court and the consent of the State. A defendant who pleads not guilty to the charge of a capital offense must be tried by jury.  2. In a justice court, a case must be tried by jury only if the defendant so demands in writing not less than 30 days before trial. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 4.390 and 4.400, if a case is tried by jury, a reporter must be present who is a certified court reporter and shall report the trial.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1424; A 1983, 749; 1987, 614; 1993, 1412)
NV Rev Stat § 175.021 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.021 - Formation of jury; number of jurors.

  1. Trial juries for criminal actions are formed in the same manner as trial juries in civil actions.  2. Except as provided in subsection 3, juries must consist of 12 jurors, but at any time before verdict, the parties may stipulate in writing with the approval of the court that the jury consist of any number less than 12 but not less than six.  3. Juries must consist of six jurors for the trial of a criminal action in a Justice Court.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1424; A 1983, 749)
NV Rev Stat § 175.031 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.031 - Examination of trial jurors.

The court shall conduct the initial examination of prospective jurors, and defendant or the defendant’s attorney and the district attorney are entitled to supplement the examination by such further inquiry as the court deems proper. Any supplemental examination must not be unreasonably restricted.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1424; A 1971, 246; 1979, 213)
NV Rev Stat § 175.036 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.036 - Challenges for cause for individual jurors: Grounds; trial of challenge.

  1. Either side may challenge an individual juror for disqualification or for any cause or favor which would prevent the juror from adjudicating the facts fairly.  2. 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.  (Added to NRS by 1968, 45)
NV Rev Stat § 175.041 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.041 - Limitation of defendants’ right to sever in challenges.

When several defendants are tried together, they cannot sever their peremptory challenges, but must join therein.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1425)
NV Rev Stat § 175.051 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.051 - Number of peremptory challenges.

  1. If the offense charged is punishable by death or by imprisonment for life, each side is entitled to eight peremptory challenges.  2. If the offense charged is punishable by imprisonment for any other term or by fine or by both fine and imprisonment, each side is entitled to four peremptory challenges.  3. The State and the defendant shall exercise their challenges alternately, in that order. Any challenge not exercised in its proper order is waived.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1425)
NV Rev Stat § 175.061 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.061 - Alternate jurors.

  1. The court may direct that not more than six jurors in addition to the regular jury be called and impaneled to sit as alternate jurors.  2. Alternate jurors, in the order in which they were called, shall replace jurors who become unable or disqualified to perform their duties.  3. Alternate jurors shall:  (a) Be drawn in the same manner;  (b) Have the same qualifications;  (c) Be subject to the same examination and challenges;  (d) Take the same oath; and  (e) Have the same functions, powers, facilities and privileges, as the regular jurors.  4. If an alternate juror is required to replace a regular juror after the jury has retired to consider its verdict, the judge shall recall the jury, seat the alternate and resubmit the case to the jury.  5. Each side is entitled to one peremptory challenge in addition to those otherwise allowed by law if one or two alternate jurors are to be impaneled, two peremptory challenges if three or four alternate jurors are to be impaneled, and three peremptory challenges if five or six alternate jurors are to be impaneled. The additional peremptory challenges may be used against an alternate juror only, and the other peremptory challenges allowed by statute may not be used against an alternate juror.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1425; A 2005, 306)
NV Rev Stat § 175.071 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.071 - Discharge of juror where juror dies or unable to perform duty.

If, before the conclusion of the trial, and there being no alternate juror called or available, a juror dies, or becomes disqualified or unable to perform the juror’s duty, the court may duly order the juror to be discharged and a new juror may be sworn and the trial begun anew, or the jury may be discharged and a new jury then or afterward impaneled.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1425)
NV Rev Stat § 175.081 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.081 - Discharge of jury after retirement upon accident or cause.

If, after the retirement of the jury, any accident or cause occurs to prevent their being kept for deliberation, the jury may be discharged.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1425)
NV Rev Stat § 175.091 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.091 - Disability of judge during trial.

If by reason of death, sickness or other disability the judge before whom a jury trial has commenced is unable to proceed with the trial, any other judge regularly sitting in or assigned to the court, upon certifying that the judge has familiarized himself or herself with the record of the trial, may proceed with and finish the trial.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1425)
NV Rev Stat § 175.101 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.101 - Disability of judge after verdict or finding of guilty or guilty but mentally ill.

If by reason of absence from the judicial district, death, sickness or other disability the judge before whom the defendant has been tried is unable to perform the duties to be performed by the court after a verdict or finding of guilty or guilty but mentally ill, any other judge regularly sitting in or assigned to the court may perform those duties, but if such other judge is satisfied that he or she cannot perform those duties because he or she did not preside at the trial or for any other reason, the judge may in his or her discretion grant a new trial.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1425; A 2007, 1410)
NV Rev Stat § 175.111 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.111 - Oath of jurors.

When the jury has been impaneled, the court shall administer the following oath: Do you and each of you solemnly swear that you will well and truly try this case, now pending before this court, and a true verdict render according to the evidence given, so help you God.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1426)
NV Rev Stat § 175.121 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.121 - Personal knowledge of jurors.

  1. The judge shall then admonish the jury that:  (a) No juror may declare to any fellow jurors any fact relating to the case as of the juror’s own knowledge; and  (b) If any juror discovers during the trial or after the jury has retired that he or she or any other juror has personal knowledge of any fact in controversy in the case, the juror shall disclose such situation to the judge out of the presence of the other jurors.  2. When any such disclosure is made, the judge shall examine the juror who admits or is alleged to have personal knowledge, under oath, in the presence of counsel for the parties, and may allow such counsel to examine the juror.  3. If the juror has disclosed the juror’s own knowledge to the judge and it appears that the juror has not declared any fact relating to the case to any fellow jurors as of the juror’s own knowledge, the judge shall after the examination decide whether the juror shall remain or shall be replaced by an alternate juror.  4. If it appears that the juror has declared any fact relating to the case to any fellow jurors as of the juror’s own knowledge, or that the juror’s vote was influenced by such knowledge undisclosed, the judge shall declare a mistrial.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1426)
NV Rev Stat § 175.131 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.131 - Judge to inform jury of right to take notes.

Before any evidence has been introduced the judge may inform the jury they may individually take notes during the trial, but the judge shall further caution them not to rely upon their respective notes in case of conflict among them, because the reporter’s notes contain the complete and authentic record of the trial.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1426)