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NV Rev Stat § 175.141 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.141 - Order of trial.

The jury having been impaneled and sworn, the trial shall proceed in the following order:  1. If the indictment or information be for a felony, the clerk must read it and state the plea of the defendant to the jury. In all other cases this formality may be dispensed with.  2. The district attorney, or other counsel for the State, must open the cause. The defendant or the defendant’s counsel may then either make the defendant’s opening statement or reserve it to be made immediately prior to the presentation of evidence in the defendant’s behalf.  3. The State must then offer its evidence in support of the charge, and the defendant may then offer evidence in his or her defense.  4. The parties may then respectively offer rebutting testimony only, unless the court, for good reasons, in furtherance of justice, permit them to offer evidence upon their original cause.  5. When the evidence is concluded, unless the case is submitted to the jury on either side, or on both sides, without argument, the district attorney, or other counsel for the State, must open and must conclude the argument.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1426)
NV Rev Stat § 175.151 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.151 - Number of counsel who may argue case.

If the indictment or information be for an offense punishable with death, two counsel on each side may argue the case to the jury, but in such case, as well as in all others, the counsel for the State must open and conclude the argument. If it be for any other offense, the court may, in its discretion, restrict the argument to one counsel on each side.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1426)
NV Rev Stat § 175.161 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.161 - Instructions.

  1. Upon the close of the argument, the judge shall charge the jury. The judge may state the testimony and declare the law, but may not charge the jury in respect to matters of fact. The charge must be reduced to writing before it is given, and no charge or instructions may be given to the jury otherwise than in writing, unless by the mutual consent of the parties. If either party requests it, the court must settle and give the instructions to the jury before the argument begins, but this does not prevent the giving of further instructions which may become necessary by reason of the argument.  2. In charging the jury, the judge shall state to them all such matters of law the judge thinks necessary for their information in giving their verdict.  3. Either party may present to the court any written charge, and request that it be given. If the court believes that the charge is pertinent and an accurate statement of the law, whether or not the charge has been adopted as a model jury instruction, it must be given. If the court believes that the charge is not pertinent or not an accurate statement of law, then it must be refused.  4. An original and one copy of each instruction requested by any party must be tendered to the court. The copies must be numbered and indicate who tendered them. Copies of instructions given on the court’s own motion or modified by the court must be so identified. When requested instructions are refused, the judge shall write on the margin of the original the word "refused" and initial or sign the notation. The instructions given to the jury must be firmly bound together and the judge shall write the word "given" at the conclusion thereof and sign the last of the instructions to signify that all have been given. After the instructions are given, the judge may not clarify, modify or in any manner explain them to the jury except in writing unless the parties agree to oral instructions.  5. After the jury has reached a verdict and been discharged, the originals of all instructions, whether given, modified or refused, must be preserved by the clerk as part of the proceedings.  6. Conferences with counsel to settle instructions must be held out of the presence of the jury and may be held in chambers at the option of the court.  7. When the offense charged carries a possible penalty of life without possibility of parole a charge to the jury that such penalty does not exclude executive clemency is a correct and pertinent charge, and must be given upon the request of either party.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1427; A 1969, 401; 1981, 410; 2017, 1707)
NV Rev Stat § 175.171 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.171 - No special instructions to be given relating exclusively to defendant’s testimony.

In the trial of all indictments, complaints and other proceedings against persons charged with the commission of crimes or offenses, the person so charged shall, at the person’s own request, but not otherwise, be deemed a competent witness, the credit to be given the person’s testimony being left solely to the jury, under the instructions of the court, but no special instruction shall be given relating exclusively to the testimony of the defendant.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1427)
NV Rev Stat § 175.181 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.181 - Instruction not to be given relative to failure of defendant to testify.

  1. No instruction shall be given relative to the failure of the person charged with the commission of crime or offense to testify, except, upon the request of the person so charged, the court shall instruct the jury that, in accordance with a right guaranteed by the Constitution, no person can be compelled, in a criminal action, to be a witness against himself or herself.  2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as compelling any such person to testify.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1427)
NV Rev Stat § 175.186 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.186 - Instructions in prosecution for sexual assault or statutory sexual seduction: Use of certain terms and instructions prohibited.

  1. In any prosecution for sexual assault or statutory sexual seduction or for an attempt to commit or conspiracy to commit either crime, the term "unchaste character" may not be used with reference to the alleged victim of the crime in any instruction to the jury.  2. In a prosecution for sexual assault or statutory sexual seduction, the court may not give any instructions to the jury to the effect that it is difficult to prove or establish the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 1132; A 1977, 1630; 1991, 126)
NV Rev Stat § 175.191 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.191 - Presumption of innocence: Acquittal in case of reasonable doubt.

A defendant in a criminal action is presumed to be innocent until the contrary is proved; and in case of a reasonable doubt whether the defendant’s guilt is satisfactorily shown, the defendant is entitled to be acquitted.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1427)
NV Rev Stat § 175.201 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.201 - Presumption of innocence: Conviction of lowest degree of offense.

Every person charged with the commission of a crime shall be presumed innocent until the contrary is proved by competent evidence beyond a reasonable doubt; and when an offense has been proved against the person, and there exists a reasonable doubt as to which of two or more degrees the person is guilty, the person shall be convicted only of the lowest.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1427)
NV Rev Stat § 175.211 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.211 - Definition of reasonable doubt; no other definition to be given to juries.

  1. A reasonable doubt is one based on reason. It is not mere possible doubt, but is such a doubt as would govern or control a person in the more weighty affairs of life. If the minds of the jurors, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, are in such a condition that they can say they feel an abiding conviction of the truth of the charge, there is not a reasonable doubt. Doubt to be reasonable must be actual, not mere possibility or speculation.  2. No other definition of reasonable doubt may be given by the court to juries in criminal actions in this State.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1427; A 1991, 257)
NV Rev Stat § 175.221 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.221 - Evidence.

  1. In all trials the testimony of witnesses shall be taken orally in open court, unless otherwise provided by statute.  2. The admissibility of evidence and the competency and privileges of witnesses shall be governed by:  (a) The general provisions of title 4 of NRS;  (b) The specific provisions of any other applicable statute; and  (c) Where no statute applies, the principles of the common law as they may be interpreted by the courts of the State of Nevada in the light of reason and experience.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1428; A 1971, 803)
NV Rev Stat § 175.241 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.241 - Proof of corporate existence generally.

If, upon a trial or proceeding in a criminal case, the existence, constitution or powers of any corporation shall become material, or be in any way drawn in question, it is not necessary to produce a certified copy of the articles or acts of incorporation, but the same may be proved by general reputation, or by the printed statutes of the state, or government, or country by which such corporation was created.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1428)
NV Rev Stat § 175.251 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.251 - Conspiracy: Allegation and proof of overt act; evidence of overt acts not alleged.

Upon a trial for conspiracy, in a case where an overt act shall be necessary to constitute the offense, the defendant shall not be convicted unless one or more overt acts shall be expressly alleged in the indictment or information, nor unless one of the acts alleged shall have been proved; but other overt acts not alleged may be given in evidence.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1428)
NV Rev Stat § 175.261 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.261 - False pretenses: What evidence necessary.

Upon a trial for having, with an intent to cheat or defraud another designedly, by any false pretense, obtained the signature of any person, to a written instrument, or having obtained from any person any money, personal property, or valuable thing, the defendant shall not be convicted if the false pretense shall have been expressed in language, unaccompanied by a false token or writing, unless the pretense or some note or memorandum thereof be in writing, subscribed by or in the handwriting of the defendant, or unless the pretense be proved by the testimony of two witnesses, or that of one witness and corroborating circumstances; but this section shall not apply to a prosecution for falsely representing or personating another, and, in such assumed character, marrying, or receiving any money or property.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1428)
NV Rev Stat § 175.271 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.271 - Expert witnesses.

  1. The court may order the defendant or the State or both to show cause why expert witnesses should not be appointed, and may request the parties to submit nominations.  2. The court may appoint any expert witnesses agreed upon by the parties, and may appoint witnesses of its own selection. An expert witness shall not be appointed by the court unless the witness consents to act.  3. A witness so appointed shall be informed of the witness’s duties by the court in writing, a copy of which shall be filed with the clerk, or at a conference in which the parties shall have the opportunity to participate.  4. A witness so appointed shall advise the parties of the witness’s findings, if any, and may thereafter be called to testify by the court or by any party. The witness shall be subject to cross-examination by each party.  5. The court may determine the reasonable compensation of such a witness and direct its payment out of such funds as may be provided by law.  6. The parties also may call expert witnesses of their own selection.  7. An expert witness, whether appointed by the court or called by a party, may in the discretion of the judge be excluded from the courtroom during the testimony of other witnesses.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1428)
NV Rev Stat § 175.282 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.282 - Plea bargain: Inspection by jury; instruction of jury; cross-examination of defendant.

If a prosecuting attorney enters into an agreement with a defendant in which the defendant agrees to testify against another defendant in exchange for a plea of guilty, guilty but mentally ill or nolo contendere to a lesser charge or for a recommendation of a reduced sentence, the court shall:  1. After excising any portion it deems irrelevant or prejudicial, permit the jury to inspect the agreement;  2. If the defendant who is testifying has not entered a plea or been sentenced pursuant to the agreement, instruct the jury regarding the possible related pressures on the defendant by providing the jury with an appropriate cautionary instruction; and  3. Allow the defense counsel to cross-examine fully the defendant who is testifying concerning the agreement.  (Added to NRS by 1991, 291; A 1995, 2451; 2003, 1460; 2007, 1410)
NV Rev Stat § 175.291 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.291 - Testimony of accomplice must be corroborated; sufficiency of corroboration; accomplice defined.

  1. A conviction shall not be had on the testimony of an accomplice unless the accomplice is corroborated by other evidence which in itself, and without the aid of the testimony of the accomplice, tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration shall not be sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof.  2. An accomplice is hereby defined as one who is liable to prosecution, for the identical offense charged against the defendant on trial in the cause in which the testimony of the accomplice is given.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1429)
NV Rev Stat § 175.301 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.301 - Testimony of person upon or with whom abortion was allegedly committed.

Upon a trial for procuring or attempting to procure an abortion, or aiding or assisting therein, the defendant must not be convicted upon the testimony of the person upon or with whom the offense has allegedly been committed, unless:  1. The testimony of that person is corroborated by other evidence; or  2. The person giving the testimony is, and was at the time the crime is alleged to have taken place, a police officer or deputy sheriff who was performing his or her duties as such.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1429; A 1979, 302; 1981, 1029; 2005, 308)
NV Rev Stat § 175.311 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.311 - Procedure when higher offense is shown by evidence.

If it appears by the testimony that the facts proved constitute an offense of a higher nature than that charged in the indictment or information, the court may direct the jury to be discharged, and all proceedings on the indictment or information to be suspended, and may order the defendant to be committed, or continued on, or admitted to bail, to answer any new indictment or information which may be found or filed against the defendant for the higher offense.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1429)
NV Rev Stat § 175.321 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.321 - Procedure if higher offense ignored.

If an indictment for the higher offense be dismissed by the grand jury, or be not found at its next session, or if an information be not filed before the next session of the grand jury, the court shall again proceed to try the defendant on the original indictment or information.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1429)
NV Rev Stat § 175.331 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.331 - When defendant on bail appears for trial defendant may be committed and held.

When a defendant who has given bail appears for trial, the court may, in its discretion, at any time after the defendant’s appearance for trial, order the defendant to be committed to the custody of the proper officer, to abide the judgment or further order of the court, and the defendant must be committed and held in custody accordingly.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1429)
NV Rev Stat § 175.341 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.341 - Mistake in charging proper offense: Defendant not discharged; commitment or bail.

When it appears, at any time before verdict or judgment, that a mistake has been made in charging the proper offense, the defendant must not be discharged, if there appears good cause to detain the defendant in custody; but the court must commit the defendant, or require the defendant to give bail for his or her appearance to answer to the offense; and may also require the witnesses to give bail for their appearance.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1429)
NV Rev Stat § 175.351 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.351 - Discharge of defendant when jury discharged for want of jurisdiction.

If the jury is discharged because the court has not jurisdiction of the offense charged, and it appears that it was committed out of the jurisdiction of this state, the defendant must be discharged, unless the court orders that the defendant be detained for a reasonable time, to be specified in the order, to enable the district attorney to communicate with the chief executive officer of the country, state, territory or district where the offense was committed.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1429)
NV Rev Stat § 175.361 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.361 - Offense committed in other county: Commitment to await warrant; admission to bail; transmittal of papers to district attorney of proper county; expense of transmission.

If the offense was committed within the jurisdiction of another county of this state, the court may direct the defendant to be committed for such time as it deems reasonable, to await a warrant from the proper county for the defendant’s arrest, or it may admit the defendant to bail in an undertaking, with sufficient sureties that the defendant will, within such time as the court may appoint, render himself or herself amenable to a warrant for arrest from the proper county; and, if not sooner arrested thereon, will attend at the office of the sheriff of the county where the trial was had, at a certain time particularly specified in the undertaking, to surrender himself or herself upon the warrant, if issued, or that the defendant’s bail will forfeit such sum as the court may fix, to be mentioned in the undertaking; and the clerk must forthwith transmit a certified copy of the indictment or information, and of all the papers filed in the action, to the district attorney of the proper county, the expenses of which transmission are chargeable to that county.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1430)
NV Rev Stat § 175.371 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.371 - Discharge where defendant not arrested on warrant from other county; proceedings in case of arrest.

  1. If the defendant is not arrested on a warrant from the proper county, as provided in NRS 175.361, the defendant must be discharged from custody, or the defendant’s bail in the action is exonerated, or money deposited instead of bail must be refunded, as the case may be, and the sureties in the undertaking, as mentioned in that section, must be discharged.  2. If the defendant is arrested, the same proceedings must be had thereon as upon the arrest of a defendant in another county on a warrant issued by a magistrate.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1430)
NV Rev Stat § 175.381 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.381 - Court may advise jury to acquit defendant when evidence on either side closed; motion for judgment of acquittal after verdict of guilty or guilty but mentally ill; subsequent motion for new trial.

  1. If, at any time after the evidence on either side is closed, the court deems the evidence insufficient to warrant a conviction, it may advise the jury to acquit the defendant, but the jury is not bound by such advice.  2. The court may, on a motion of a defendant or on its own motion, which is made after the jury returns a verdict of guilty or guilty but mentally ill, set aside the verdict and enter a judgment of acquittal if the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction. The motion for a judgment of acquittal must be made within 7 days after the jury is discharged or within such further time as the court may fix during that period.  3. If a motion for a judgment of acquittal after a verdict of guilty or guilty but mentally ill pursuant to this section is granted, the court shall also determine whether any motion for a new trial should be granted if the judgment of acquittal is thereafter vacated or reversed. The court shall specify the grounds for that determination. If the motion for a new trial is granted conditionally, the order thereon does not affect the finality of the judgment. If the motion for a new trial is granted conditionally and the judgment is reversed on appeal, the new trial must proceed unless the appellate court has otherwise ordered. If the motion is denied conditionally, the defendant on appeal may assert error in that denial, and if the judgment is reversed on appeal, subsequent proceedings must be in accordance with the order of the appellate court.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1430; A 1991, 651; 2007, 1410)
NV Rev Stat § 175.383 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.383 - Withdrawal, discharge or change of defense counsel; limitations.

If a counsel seeks to withdraw from the case or is discharged by the defendant for the purpose of delaying the trial, the court shall not allow the counsel to be changed. The counsel for a defendant may not be changed after a trial has commenced except upon good cause shown to the court.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 596)
NV Rev Stat § 175.387 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.387 - Misconduct of defendant; sanctions.

  1. Whenever a defendant interferes with the orderly course of a trial by disruptive, disorderly or disrespectful conduct, the court may:  (a) Order the defendant bound and gagged.  (b) Cite the defendant for contempt.  (c) Order the defendant removed from the courtroom and proceed with the trial.  2. No such order or citation shall issue except after the defendant has been fully and fairly informed that the defendant’s conduct is wrong and intolerable and has been warned of the consequences of continued misconduct.  3. A defendant who has been removed from the courtroom may be returned upon the defendant’s promise to discontinue such misconduct. If the defendant’s misconduct continues after the defendant’s return the court may proceed as provided in subsection 1.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 847)
NV Rev Stat § 175.391 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 175 - Trial|NRS 175.391 - Separation or custody of jury before submission.

The jurors sworn to try a criminal action may, at any time before the submission of the case to the jury, in the discretion of the court, be permitted to separate, depart for home overnight or be kept in charge of a proper officer. Upon commencing deliberation, the jurors shall be kept in charge of a proper officer, unless at the discretion of the court they are permitted to depart for home overnight. When the jurors are kept together, the officer in charge shall keep the jurors in some private and convenient place and separate from other persons. The officer shall not permit any communication to be made to them, or make any personally, unless by order of the court, except to ask them if they have agreed upon their verdict. The officer shall not, before the verdict is rendered, communicate to any person the state of their deliberations or the verdict agreed upon. The officer shall return them into court when they have reached their verdict or when ordered by the court.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1430; A 1977, 882)