Court Opinion

ID: 9795443
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:29:07.383278+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:00.488165
License: Public Domain

Maupin, J.,
concurring and dissenting:
I agree with Chief Justice Rose that the PPA is not an aggrieved party with standing to argue the propriety of the citizen review board’s subpoena of Officer Leyba. I also agree with the Chief Justice regarding the scope of NRS 289.385(1).
I write separately to address the construction of NRS 289.385(1) urged by Justices Gibbons and Hardesty. In short, I cannot believe that the Legislature, in enacting a very important piece of legislation designed to foster and solidify positive relations between police authorities and the communities they serve, intended to create citizen review boards on one hand and emasculate the concept in virtually the same breath. In my view, our colleagues’ interpretation of this measure does just that, leaving these boards to review instances of bad etiquette involving members of law enforcement. To me, this interpretation would lead to an absurd result.